PHILOSOPHER

Socrates

470 BC - 399 BC

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Socrates (; Ancient Greek: Σωκράτης, romanized: Sōkrátēs; c. 470 – 399 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and as among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought. An enigmatic figure, Socrates authored no texts and is known mainly through the posthumous accounts of classical writers, particularly his students Plato and Xenophon. These accounts are written as dialogues, in which Socrates and his interlocutors examine a subject in the style of question and answer; they gave rise to the Socratic dialogue literary genre. Contradictory accounts of Socrates make a reconstruction of his philosophy nearly impossible, a situation known as the Socratic problem. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Socrates is the 4th most popular philosopher (down from 3rd in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Greece (down from 3rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Greek Philosopher.

Socrates is most famous for his contribution to the field of philosophy. He is often considered the father of Western philosophy.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Socrates ranks 4 out of 1,267. Before him are Gautama Buddha, Aristotle, and Plato. After him are Confucius, Pythagoras, Immanuel Kant, René Descartes, Avicenna, Laozi, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Baruch Spinoza.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 470 BC, Socrates ranks 1. After him are Aspasia, Mozi, Philolaus, Melissus of Samos, Callicrates, Hippocrates of Chios, Achilles Painter, and Teres I. Among people deceased in 399 BC, Socrates ranks 1. After him are Hippias, Archelaus I of Macedon, Thrasymachus, and Amyrtaeus.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Socrates ranks 5 out of 1,024. Before him are Aristotle (-384), Plato (-427), Alexander the Great (-356), and Homer (-800). After him are Pythagoras (-570), Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881), Hippocrates (-460), Sophocles (-497), Democritus (-460), Epicurus (-341), and Solon (-638).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Greece

Among philosophers born in Greece, Socrates ranks 3. Before him are Aristotle (-384), and Plato (-427). After him are Pythagoras (-570), Democritus (-460), Epicurus (-341), Plutarch (46), Protagoras (-486), Gorgias (-483), Theophrastus (-371), Apollodorus of Athens (-180), and Antisthenes (-445).

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