Socrates

Socrates (Alopecia, Ancient Athens, 470 BC / 469 - Ancient Athens, 399 BC) was a Greek Athenian philosopher, one of the most important figures of Greek and world spirit and culture and one of the founders of Western philosophy. .
Indicative of its importance for Ancient Greek philosophy is that all Greek philosophers before him were called Prosocratic. There are countless scholars who have dealt with Socrates in the centuries since his death, many of whom are so famous that the W.K.C. Guthrie to write that "in the end everyone has his own, to a degree Socrates, who is not exactly the same as Socrates of anyone else". He had a large circle of loyal friends, mainly young people from aristocratic families, from all over Greece. Some of them became known as founders of philosophical schools in various fields. The best known were Plato and Antisthenes in Athens, Euclid in Megara, Phaedo in Ilia and Aristippus in Kyrenia. The comedian Aristophanes. All his influence, often ranks him among the leading world figures of all time with the greatest influence, along with his student, Plato. in his first known work The Birth of Tragedy (1872) in which he expresses positions indicative of his contradictory feelings for the ancient Greek philosopher.