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Widely renowned as one of the founders of Western philosophy, Socrates placed philosophy on the sound basis of reason, believing it to be better to question ourselves rather than the world around us and viewing the world as inaccessible to our senses - only to thought. Socrates' dialectic, a method of aggressive questioning, was the forerunner of logic. He was eventually tried and sentenced to death, ending his life by drinking the judicial hemlock.
Socrates: Philosophy in an hour includes selections from his work and chronologies that place Socrates in the context of the broader scheme of philosophy.