Socrates' question

Author: Liu Xiaofeng
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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, as well as good and evil. — Cicero
The unity of a person lies in the fact that he is a part of the whole that is open to the whole, or in Plato's words, a part of the whole that watches 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—the person is such a duality. — Strauss
The so-called "philosophy" that Socrates dedicated his life to was not metaphysics, nor ethics, nor rhetoric. It was fundamentally not a science in the ordinary sense but a pursuit of a perfect moral life. — Mayer
This book includes five parts: Socratic Problems, Classical Text Studies, Explorations in the History of Ideas, New Publications of Old Articles, and Book Reviews.