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Socrates was born in Athens in the 5th century BCE — a city that called itself the cradle of democracy. He was not an aristocrat. Not a politician. He did not seek power. His weapon was words. His method was questions.
He walked through markets, streets, and public squares, engaging craftsmen, soldiers, poets, and statesmen in conversation. Socrates did not teach in the conventional sense. He did not offer answers. He forced people to doubt what they believed was obvious.
His greatest achievement was not a theory or a system.
His achievement was a **way of thinking**.
What later became known as the Socratic method — a sequence of questions that gradually exposes contradictions, false certainty, and the illusion of knowledge.
Socrates famously said,
“I ...