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Classical Greek Athenian philosopher (c. – BC)

This article is about the classical Greek philosopher. For other uses of Socrates, see Socrates (disambiguation).

For the Attic orator, see Isocrates.

Socrates (,Ancient Greek: Σωκράτης, romanized:&#;Sōkrátēs; c.&#; – &#;BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy^[3] and as among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought.

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An enigmatic figure, Socrates authored no texts and is known mainly through the posthumous accounts of classical writers, particularly his students Plato and Xenophon. These accounts are written as dialogues, in which Socrates and his interlocutors examine a subject in the style of question and answer; they gave rise to the Socratic dialogue literary genre.

Contradictory accounts of Socrates make a reconstruction of his philosophy nearly impossible, a situation known as the Socratic problem. Socrates was a polarizing f