Monster Essays - Influences Of Socratic Philoso
WESTERN CIVILIZATION
In today's modern world, much of our own culture's beliefs and
morals are directly due to the impact of Socratic philosophy on
European thinkers, and therefore our own in the western world. This
philosophy, was based upon the thoughts of Socrates, who was an
Athenian philosopher and possibly the most enigmatic figure in the
entire history of philosophy.
To begin, after about 450 B.C., Athens was considered the cultural
center of the Greek world, and from then on, Athenian philosophy
took a new direction. In the past, the Greek world had experienced
ideas presented by the natural philosophers (or pre....
|