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Socrates Louvre
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Greece from the Coming of the Hellenes to AD. 14, page 201, Socrates
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苏格拉底

蘇格拉底
Sūgélādǐ
proper noun #16,755

Meanings

  1. 1 Socrates (ancient Greek philosopher)

About Socrates

c. 470–399 BC · 思想家 thinker

Athenian philosopher who taught by questioning people rather than lecturing, wrote nothing himself and is known through his pupil Plato. An Athenian court sentenced him to death, and he died by drinking hemlock.

Examples

HSK 7-9
Sūgélādǐ shì xīfāng zhéxué de diànjīrén zhīyī.
Socrates is one of the founders of Western philosophy.

Tips

culture
Chinese calls his questioning method 产婆术, 'the midwife's art': his mother was a midwife, and he said he only helped others give birth to their own ideas. His best-known line in Chinese is 未经审视的生活是不值得过的, 'the unexamined life is not worth living'.

Stroke Order

苏 sū
格 gé
拉 lā
底 dǐ