Socrates
- Jurist
- Socrates
- School
- Greek Philosophy (Virtue Ethics)
- Father of
- Western Moral Philosophy
- Theory
- Socratic method (elenchus); virtue is knowledge; "no one does evil knowingly"; foundation of Western moral philosophy.
- Quote
Virtue is knowledge, and vice is ignorance.
- Books
None — his ideas survive through Plato's dialogues (Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Republic) and Xenophon's Memorabilia.
- Propounded
Socratic method (elenchus); virtue is knowledge; no one does evil knowingly
- Born
- -470
- Died
- -399
- Portrait
- /jurists/socrates.jpg