(Equality is a value of modern times.) It was a patriarchal society. Greeks did not believe in natural equality. It was a agrarian society with slavery as a mode of production. It means the loyalty of person was towards his city and not with the broader region known as Greece. There was no concept of nation, Greeks used to live under the city state. (399 BC) The first thinker of political philosophy was also its first martyr. The wisest man in Athens was put to death. A trial was conducted, he was declared guilty and awarded death punishment. He was charged with spreading irreligion and corrupting the youth of Athens. However, this quest of Socrates earned him several enemies. He thus found the words of Oracle irrefutable. Socrates said that he was as ignorant as any other man, with the very slight advantage that he at least KNEW he was ignorant, and in that way, he was the wisest of the entire population.
they were ignorant about their ignorance. He interviewed many great people and found – that although they had good knowledge of their field, it also led them to assume that they have knowledge of other fields as well (where they didn’t have any) i.e. Socrates took the statement as a puzzle and took to the mission of finding a wiser man than himself.
His reputation grew when an Oracle of Delphi, a priestess at the Temple of Apollo proclaimed that no one was wiser than Socrates. After that, he took to the profession of teaching. Born in 470 BC in ancient Greece, Socrates worked as a stonemason and served in the military before retiring.
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