Unseen Comprehension-53 Alim (Socrates)

Socrates.

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Socrates was born of poor working class parents probably in the year 470 B. C. He had the usual education of the boys in those days, learning music, science, philosophy and gymnastics. He also studied the arts of public speaking and argument. As a young man he served the army and had fought in several battles with great courage. When he left the army, some of his friends wanted him to go to politics, but this he refused to do for he felt that he had another mission in life. This mission was to unmask ignorance and encourage the truth up and down the streets of Athens, in the market places, in the house of the rich and in the workshops of the poor. Socrates carried on his search for truth. His method was to stop someone and to question him. By these questions he would show the others how vague and incomplete their ideas were. Then he would help them to build up his ideas on a surer foundation.