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Socrates was one of the most important Greek philosophers and thinkers of both philosophy Western from which he emerged as the universal after the imprint and achievements that he achieved through his ideas, proposals and formulations. He was born and lived in the most splendid era of the Greek capital, Athens, between 470 and 399 BC. he is prior to Plato and Aristotle, but together with them it formed the basis of Greek philosophy, being of course one of its most faithful representatives.

From a young age, Socrates aroused the attention of his own and others through the fine irony of him, his sharp and deep reasoning, as well as the ease of speech that he presented when exposing them, either before an important or reduced in public people.

The intelligence that dominated him and his strong need to unmask those who at that time boasted of knowing more than the wise man is that he developed a particular strategy, which was later called Socratic irony, which consisted of talking with people pretending to know much less than they knew and then putting them face to face with the main errors and ignorances of him, also from here comes one of the most famous phrases in history and that distinguished this particular character: I only know that I do not know nothing

His legacy more important, besides himself, was the creation of maieutics, a inductive method that he taught to his students and that consists in the realization of skillful questions whose logic he will illuminate the understanding to get to solve the different problems that were presented.

Likewise, Socrates firmly believed that self-control and knowledge would restore the relationship between nature and man.

Although it seems incredible, Socrates, he never wrote any work in which his thoughts and proposals were immortalized, basically, because he considered that each one individually is the one who must develop his own ideas about things, that is why Socrates and his thought he was known through the dialogues published by Plato, his faithful disciple, the writings of Xenophon, a colleague of Socrates in those times, by the mentions that Aristotle made of his in his works and by Aristophanes' comedy entitled The Clouds in which he is ridiculed.

Socrates, like many others who also throughout history had to pay with his life for the fact of think different from the power of the day, he died at the age of 70 after agreeing to ingest hemlock after a court judged and condemned him for not recognizing the Athenian gods and thus corrupting the youth.