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Socrates

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), the most famous and influential British philosopher of the nineteenth century:

"It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied."

quotations

background

"I am not a teacher"

high opinion of women

led by a daimonion, internal voice, or sacred intuition

life's work and focus

Socrates as presented by Plato

best-known teachings

birth and early life

marriage

why so many hated him

aware of one's own ignorance

care for the soul more than anything else

the gadfly

the unexamined life

unity of virtue

no one errs knowingly or willingly

all desire is for the good

better to suffer, than to commit, injustice

eudaimonia, happiness

elenchus, the Socratic method

oracle of Apollo at Delphi