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Socrates was a classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy. He is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of classical writers, especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon and the plays of his contemporary Aristophanes. Plato's dialogues are among the most comprehensive accounts of Socrates to survive from antiquity, though it is unclear the degree to which Socrates himself is "hidden behind his 'best disciple', Plato". Through his portrayal in Plato's dialogues, Socrates has become renowned for his contribution to the field of ethics, and it is this who lends his name to the concepts of Socratic irony and the Socratic method, or elenchus. The latter remains a commonly used tool in a wide range of discussions, and is a type of pedagogy in which a series of questions is asked not only to draw individual answers,, but also to encourage fundamental insight into the issue at hand. Plato's Socrates also made important a...

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00:01:32: Socratic problem
00:03:37: Socrates as a figure
00:05:13: Socrates as a philosopher
00:06:58: Biography
00:07:48: Early life
00:08:50: Military service
00:10:01: Epistates at the trial of the six commanders
00:11:34: Arrest of Leon
00:12:06: Trial and death
00:17:07: Socratic method
00:19:38: Philosophical beliefs
00:23:33: Socratic paradoxes
00:24:08: Knowledge
00:27:12: Virtue
00:28:24: Politics
00:32:42: Covertness
00:36:23: Satirical playwrights
00:37:20: Prose sources
00:38:01: The Socratic dialogues
00:40:36: Immediate influence
00:42:56: Later historical influence
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