Did Socrates Impact On Society

Socrates was born around 469 BCE in Athens, Greece. Socrates’ father was a stone mason/sculptor, so Socrates did not have a plethora of money when he was growing up. When Socrates was growing up he studied music, gymnastics, and grammar were seen as the common studies for a young Greek child to assimilate (Mark). While studying these subjects, Socrates was following his father’s footsteps on the path to becoming a sculptor. It is said that Socrates was an extraordinary artist, and this was shown in his statue of the Graces (Mark). Socrates gained all of his knowledge by asking other people questions that require a higher level of thinking. This was the beginning of Socrates impact on the world. Socrates influenced the world by changing the way we think, by developing our education system, and by mentoring important philosophers who changed our society today.

Socrates had multiple ideas that would later significantly impacted the world. One idea that changed our society was the idea that human choice was influenced by happiness. He believed that humans make choices to make themselves happy. Another proposal that Socrates stated said that human make decision based off of what they will achieve from it. This means that human make decisions to make themselves have the upper hand, rather than making

Due to the development of the Socratic system, Socrates was able to make people question everything they heard. This was a great achievement due to the fact that it made people think things through rather than accepting the things other people told them. The Socratic method also made people ask questions; it made them wonder why certain things occurred. Due to this, people were starting to think at a higher level creating their own opinions. People were now making their own path and believing in what they believed rather than what other people told them to believe, due to the Socratic method that Socrates