Socrates' questions

Author: Liu Xiaofeng, Chen Shaoming (editors)
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: Since pre-Socratic philosophy focuses on numbers and motion, exploring where things come from and where they go, Socrates was a person who brought philosophy down from the heavens to the mortal world. He even introduced philosophy into ordinary households, forcing it to question life and customs, and to inquire about what is good and what is bad. — Cicero
The unity of a person lies in the fact that he is an integral part that is open to the whole, or in Plato's language, an integral part that is a part of the whole that sees the Forms of all things. The focus of a person on the whole to which he is open is the life of the soul. Being both a part and open to the whole means, in a certain sense, that it is the whole itself — man is such a duality. — Strauss
The so-called "philosophy" that Socrates dedicated his life to was not metaphysics, not ethics, nor rhetoric. It was fundamentally not a science in the ordinary sense but a pursuit of a perfect moral life. — Mayer