Philosophy and its Philosophers

Virtue, morality, immortality, death, and the difference between the psyche (soul) and the soma (body) are just a few of the many different topics which can be covered under the umbrella of philosophy. Over the years, great philosophers such as Plato and Socrates have been recognized for the different theories they've created. Socrates a Greek philosopher, was able to set the standard for all subsequent Western philosophy, through his used of critical reasoning, his commitment to the truth and and through the vivid example of his own life. Socrates was a man that believed in the superiority of an argument over writing, since he left no literary legacy of his own, we are dependent upon writers like Plato and the historian Xenophon.
             Socrates's contribution to philosophy was essentially ethical in character. The basis of his teaching was the belief in an objective understandign of concepts such as justice, love or virtue. Socrates that human vices were concecuence of ignorance and tat no person is willingly bad. At the sametiem he believed that virtue is knowledge therefore those who know what is right will act in such a matter. Socrates logic made an emphasis on the rational argument and the search for general definitions. Socrates believed that it was thesearch that was important, even more so than the answers them selves. Socrates believed that the journey toward the answers is where most of the learning takes place, and it is this journey that truly integrates the answers as part of your very own being. .
             Socrates believed that he had received a call to pursue philosophy and that he could serve his country best by devoting himself to teaching, and by persuading the Athenians to engage in self-examination and in tending to their souls. Therefore spent the greater part of his mature life in the marketplace or other public places of Athens, engaging in dialogue and argument with anyone who would listen or who would be willing to submit themselves to interrogation.