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...ty"<ref name=Nelson1996>Nelson, Brian R. ''Western Political Thought: From Socrates to the Age of Ideology''. 2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Ha

...ent him. He is one of those figures, like Adam, Moses, Hippocrates, Homer, Socrates, King Arthur, and Robin Hood, which so embody a crisis of an age (but not i

Socrates, in speaking to a man by chance named Hippocrates wonders why the man exhib ...ariant:small-caps">bce</span>), a contemporary of Hippocrates. Plato has [[Socrates]] mentioning Hippocrates in his works, [[Protagoras]] and [[Phaedrus]]. The

...explainable in part in terms of a failure to understand what is right (as Socrates seems to have thought)? In short, is knowledge virtue, and is vice always

* [[Voltaire's Socrates (play)]]

...divinities, [[Socrates]] was called an atheist, and ultimately [[Trial of Socrates|sentenced to death]] for [[impiety]] on the basis that he inspired question

...answer ''ti esti'' questions (Greek: "what is," the sort of question that Socrates asked about the various virtues) it is essential to understand what ''funct

...ntages of social cooperation that culminated in the political debates of [[Socrates]], [[Plato]] and [[Aristotle]] in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE. In the c

...ticle/2011/04/06/portugal-socrates-aid-idUSLIS00263120110406 ''Portugal PM Socrates says requests EU aid'', Reuters 6 April 2011]</ref>.

...on morality and society rather than natural philosophy. The philosopher [[Socrates]] addressed the same topics as the Sophists. Prior to that time there were

...fails to wrest the scepter from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob." Today, the use and e

In the centuries before [[Socrates]], [[Plato]] and Aristotle, astronomy was concerned with keeping time. The

...e Buddha's legendary reticence, and compared his teaching style to that of Socrates.[yy]

}}</ref> [[Socrates]] might have applauded such a [[decision]]; he suggested the prime [[virtue