Socrate; Life and Philosophy

For the Greeks, the name Socrates formed a watershed in history of their philosophy. The reason they give for this is that he turned men's eyes from the s peculation about the nature of the physical world, which had been characteristics of the pre-socratic period, and concentrated attention in the problems of human life. Socrates was said to be born in 470 or 469BC. He was married to Xarithipee, had three sons, one as a youth during the time of his execution. He was a native of Athens, son of Sophroniseus and Phaenarete. According to Plato, Socrate died at the age of seventy. His father was a sculptor/stonemason and his mother a midwife. He was accused of impiety and corrupting young men by Meletus. Socrate was found guilty of refusing to recognise the gods by the state, of corrupting the youth. The penalty demanded was death.