Anything about Socrates' life and teachings??

Answer 1

Socrates meets Jesus:

http://www.unm.edu/~humanism/socvsjes.htm

Answer 2

Sure. He grew up in the Greek city-state of Athens, and began teaching others that it is necessary to question things. This led to the development of the Socratic method, in which one keeps asking questions to arrive at a certain answer. He taught this to aspiring young philosophers, and eventually gained a large, interested following among the youth.
Unfortunately, false accusations were leveled against him by three men, Anytus, Meletus, and Lycon, who charged that Socrates was "corrupting the youth," and that Socrates didn't believe in the gods. Socrates was then promptly taken to court, where he was forced to defend himself.
In his defense, Socrates said that he did, in fact, believe in the Greek gods, and that the accusations were groundless. He also openly suspected that the reason for the false accusation was jealousy. Socrates stated that he believed that a god put him on Earth for one reason: to expose the ignorance and folly of others. Therefore, when Socrates spoke, he sometimes embarrassed the people of his day who were respected as wise when he exposed them as normal, or even ignorant, people. Because of this, he said, some people must have gotten together to conspire against him and bring him to his execution. Despite the unfairness, Socrates didn't express any desperation or sense of vengeance; he believed that, no matter what was decided during the trial, it would be the will of the god that created him.
Socrates was then given the death sentence and forced to drink poison hemlock, at which point he died.

Information about Socrates' debates, his trial, and the moments just before his death are contained in Plato's Five Dialogues. Being a student of Socrates, Plato made sure to record some of Socrates' debates. The five dialogues written are Euthryphro, in which Socrates debates with a good friend; Apology, a written account of Socrates' defense in court; Crito, in which is reasons with a friend as to why escape of his imprisonment would be unwise and not virtuous; Meno, in which he debates with a person about the nature of virtue; and Phaedo, in which Socrates talks with his friends about the nature of death, whether it is morally good to desire death, etc.

Answer 3

Socrates was a Greek philosopher. In fact, he was the original. When asked if he was wise, he replied "No", but said he was a "lover of wisdom" (philosophos, in Greek), from which we get our word "philosopher". The Greek philosopher Plato was his student, and it was a good thing too, because Plato's Dialogs is the only record we have of Socrates, because he belonged to the ancient oral tradition of not writing anything down. According to the legend, Socrates once went to the Delphi Oracle (kind of an ancient version of Yahoo) and asked who the wisest man in the world was. Now, usually, when you asked the Delphi Oracle a question, the answer came back so convoluted and weird it could mean practically anything. The meaning only became clear after the fact, when something happened and everyone smacked their foreheads and said, "So that's what the oracle meant!" Socrates, however, was the only one who ever got a straight answer to a question. When he asked who was the wisest man, he got a one-word answer in return: Socrates. That freaked him out something fierce. How could he be the world's wisest man? There were all kinds of things he didn't know! But then on the other hand, the gods, while they could be malicious, never lied. So Socrates was in a quandary. He knew damned good and well he wasn't a wise man, much less the wisest one in the world. On the other hand, the gods didn't lie. Okay, so maybe they were mistaken! That was Socrates way out of the paradox. If he could find a wiser man than himself, he could return to the Delphi Oracle and say, "Okay, so what about him?" Well, needless to say, he never found a wiser man than himself, although the legends say he spent years trying. Finally, he came to realize what the gods really meant. Socrates was the wisest man because he was smart enough to realize he didn't know everything! Socrates method of questioning (known as the Socratic method, for obvious reasons) consisted of asking his "target" a series of questions to get him to define terms, and then systematially destroying them, point by point. When the youth of Athens began immitating his style, thereby making their elders look like assholes, the city elders got extremely pissed off and had Socrates busted for "corrupting the youth of the city". Most claim he was condemned to death, but in reality, he was given the choice of exile, or death. But he was 70 years old by then, he was tired, and where was he going to go? He'd lived all his life in Athens, and decided he wanted to die there too. So he drank the hemlock, a poison which was the ancient Greek method of execution (yes, they invented "lethal injection -- or at least lethal ingestion, like they invented so many other things), and thereby passed into history, not to mention legend. Among those who were with him to the last was his faithful student Plato, who describes the scene in his Dialogs. Plato achieved as much fame as his teacher, and passed his and his mentor's knowledge on to one of his students, Aristotle, the most famous Greek philosopher of all. Interesting historical footnote, that is.

Answer 4

"The unexamined life is not worth living"-Socrates I suggest reading some books.

Answer 5

there is only one good, knowledge. and only one evil, ignorance. this quote from socrates is one of my favorites

Answer 6

What's this?...oh, hemlock...well, then Drink up!