SOCRATES AND PLATO - CONCEPTS AND IDEAS

   Socrates was born in 400 BC, son of a sculptor and a midwife. Was military, sculptor, senator and after maturity became philosopher.
   His goal was to dispel doubts, redirect their concepts and make people know each other, leading them to virtue. He did not charge for his teachings, attended rich and poor. Your best disciplo, Plato, recorded his knowledge and ideas, as the old man never recorded anything, Plato could see where philosophers who charged for their queries, pointing them as impostors.
   The great philosopher believed that the soul could distinguish the fair, the good and the right. For this, Socrates created a dialogical method, called Maieutics. He said that, like his mother brought him to the world, he brought the truth.
 
   "The reason behind the truth to light."

   The Maieutics worked as follows: Socrates began the dialogue for reflective question, after the caller's response, he made the Socratic irony, disorienting him in thinking, and creates a counter-argument, causing the listener to be convinced of sterility and contravention of your opinion, leading to admit your mistake and your ignorance.
   The famous Socratic dialectic was divided into three points: thesis, antithesis and synthesis. The thesis is the claim, the antithesis is the opposition and the synthesis is the result, ie, prevalence of intellect on the opinion. The purpose of the debate was because for Socrates, there was only one way to find out the truth, knowing yourself before.

   "Know yourself to yourself"

   For the philosopher, who only know yourself, you know that, do not you. The great virtue is to know that you do not know.

   "I only know that I know nothing"

   The more you know that, do not you, you are wiser. Wise is the man who knows its imperfections and its limits, which uses reason over emotion.
   At 71, was judged to death for corrupting the ideas of young people and by denying the existence of the Athenian gods. He believed that it would not be so bad the underworld, gaining more knowledge.