Socrates, the great Greek philosopher, was a man of the people. His father was an artisan, one of the stone masons who squared, fixed and polished the blocks of which the Parthenon was built. Socrates took up the chisel of his father, the stone mason. He felt himself to be a born artisan, but he was more attracted to fashioning a different sort of material, the human soul, with the same “certainty, knowledge and workmanly …showed first 75 words of 2658 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2658 total…His disciple, Plato, would take up the task of further developing the metaphysical foundations of Socrates’ philosophy. The philosopher Kierkagard called Socrates, “the star dancer to the glory of god”. The voice of Socrates, the midwife of the soul, still rings true to this day. He was ahead of his times and his views on the soul and moral life of man are reflected in world religions. I find his ideas engaging, fulfilling and inspiring.