A lot of philosophy was done at the presence of the time it was presented. I don't find most philosophers credible as they catered to the kings and queens that ruled. Even up to modern times. Yes children we have kings and queens we have designated even now.
Socrates and that article I quoted above (thank you lauraclay for pointing out some key articles I didn't notice in my haste to pay tribute to my mentor Socrates) are not exactly accurate as I saw the way he did things or desirable. Socrates a Sophist... exactly the opposite. People who listened to him as I researched thought of him as the person who made the Sophists cringe. He believed in the best way of living and the best way to live. Moderation was the best way because you were a balanced human being. If a man (those times you know) balanced himself with life then he could find the real truth.
Yeah as an Agnostic I think Socrates would have been an addition to us. Religion isn't at all realistic... the gods were believed... he thought there was a single God (incidently which was why he was condemned to Death, it resembles Christ more and more each time I think about it, the Greek version of the fall of Lucifer resembles the war of the Gods and Titans, only the Titan won against the Fallen) because at that time it would have been complete blaspheme to claim their was no God or to even question what type of God it is. Know whats fun is that Socrates never specified what kind of God it was that ruled his world. He chose to go see for himself on his own terms and I admire that as much as I admire Einstein and Newton (he was a little crazy but he invented so much in mathematics and physics that I love the man)
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