Socrates was a man of many wisdoms and deep thoughts. Although he is now highly praised in the modern world, in his day he was shun by the majority of people. Socrates did not agree with the idea of democracy, but he accepted the fact that it was the law. In his own philosophy he believed that a persons actions must be just and he tended to prove wrong people's beliefs by questioning them into confusion.
Socrates was always a man of his word. He would stand by anything that he would say and defend it. Many people did not understand what Socrates would say when he spoke to them. When people would speak to him, he would question them about their views. He would first make certain that they believed in their views almost definitely. Once he was assured with that, he would do some deep inquiries into how the person felt and end up turning the person's entire opinion into something else. The person generally would become confused, but he understood himself completely. Using a method properly named "The Socratic Dialogue", or dialectic, he retrieved the inner knowledge from his students by pursuing a series of questions and examining the effects of their answers. Almost everyone that he came into contact with he would question. For example, Socrates methodically denies Euthyphro's idea that what makes right actions right is that the gods love or approval of them. First, there is the obvious problem that, since questions of right and wrong often generate neverending disputes, the gods are likely to disagree among themselves about moral matters no more or less often than we do, making some actions both right and wrong. More importantly, Socrates thinks of a dilemma from a deceptive and simple question: "Is the pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the gods?" In the Socratic dialogue, his extensive questioning with students and friends aim at understanding and achieving virtue through the careful use of his method that uses critical inquiry to undermine the valididity of widely-held ideas.
