The Questioner
Socrates
Your quest companion appears in the header, offers one of their ideas on your home page each day, and cheers you on in lessons. You can change companions at any time, and your progress stays the same.
An Athenian who wrote nothing. Known through Plato and Xenophon, he questioned his fellow citizens about justice and virtue, and was executed in 399 BCE.
Key work: Plato’s Apology, his speech at his trial
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Key ideas, in brief (in our words)
A life that is never examined falls short of what it could be.
Wisdom starts by admitting what you do not know.
A sharp question outranks a borrowed answer.
Read more: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
On the climb
Why Socrates StayedThe Examined LifeThe Ship of TheseusSocratic IgnoranceDefine the WordA Reason to BelieveLuck Is Not KnowledgeThe Map Is Not the Territoryand 4 more
Quest with Socrates above to start the climb and open these lessons.
