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him. This is because he did not bother write any of his musings or teachings down. However, most of what we know about Socrates today comes to us from the
works of Socrates student, Plato. It is through many of his works that the ethical theories of Socrates may be viewed and the manner of the man, known. WHO
WAS HE? Socrates was a keen study of human nature and human motives. As such, he was an ardent political commentator. The problem with this, of course, was that it
could land one in jail, or worse, yet, dead. "The States are as the men are; they grow out of human characters(Plato, 543a). This philosophy of Socrates is what presumably
had him arrested, tried and executed. Socrates, according to Plato, analyzed the various types of governments that were attempted during a very tumultuous time in Athens. As such, corruption was
rampant and Socrates spoke out against it. In Book Eight of Platos Republic, one can see Socrates explaining the four types of corrupt governments, the kind of men that make
each type of government run and says that as the individuals personality is, so there to, is the governments personality. In other words, if the person is corrupt or possesses
some sort of graft then the government will also. Socrates, if one reads any of Platos works, seems to be a
man of intense and never satisfied curiosity. He employed the same logical tricks developed by the Sophists to a new purpose, the pursuit of truth. Many credit Socrates with the
birth of critical philosophy in that he would accept nothing less than a full account of how something worked, what someones motivations were for committing certain acts, and where one
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