What, exactly, did Socrates teach? Well, among other things, he fervently believed that everyone should be serious about the question as to what sort of life a person should live. Plato recorded the teachings of Socrates in his DIALOGUES. At the very end of GORGIAS, one of these dialogues, Socrates said, "You may let anyone despise you as a fool and do you outrage, if he wishes, yes, and you may cheerfully let him strike you with that humiliating blow, for you will suffer no harm thereby if you really are a good man and an honorable, and pursue virtue. . . . This is the best way of life--to live and die in the pursuit of righteousness and all other virtues. Let us follow this, I say, inviting others to join us." Socrates lived these truths and he did so even unto death, thereby causing the truths which he taught to make an indelible impression upon his society, and upon all future societies that would be influenced by Hellenistic culture. The story of th
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