SocratesJNS

Socrates valued questioning to develop new truth. He would question about peoples' beliefs and would often prove that people had many contradictory opinions. He said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." Many admired him and his ideas, however, when he was about 70 years old he was judged for "corrupting the youth" and was condemned to death. He died drinking a poison. Although he taught many good ideas, he never wrote anything down. The things we know about him were written by one of his students, Plato.