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Name derives from the name of SERVER - SOCRATES (four first
letters).We have great respect for Socrates .. And we think that in
present times is someone who DESERVES RESPECT..
Who was Socrates everyone can yourself check and search online .. but here is good place and good time for this.. so.. he was a wise, clever, good man, and philosopher - was also a good SOLDIER - vide Dialogues of Plato and Xenophon Chronicles: Several of Plato's dialogues refer to Socrates' military service. Socrates says he served in the Athenian army. Socrates took part in three military campaigns at Potidaea (432-429), Delium (424) and Amphipolis (422) and distinguished himself with his bravery, physical vigor and near Spartan indifference to the harshness of the elements, coolness in danger, and astonishing endurance of cold, heat, and hunger. He was an good citizen.
Something was peculiar about his gait as well, sometimes
described as a swagger so intimidating that enemy soldiers kept
their distance. He was impervious to the effects of alcohol and
cold, but this made him an object of suspicion to his fellow
soldiers on campaign. We can safely assume an average height (since
no one mentions it at all), and a strong build, given the active
life he appears to have led.
In the Symposium Alcibiades describes Socrates' valour in the
battles of Potidaea and Delium, recounting how Socrates saved his
life in the former battle. Socrates' exceptional service at Delium
is also mentioned in the Laches (dialog of Plato) by the General
after whom the dialogue is named. In the Apology, Socrates compares
his military service to his courtroom troubles, and saysanyone on the jury who thinks he ought to retreat from
philosophy must also think soldiers should retreat when it looks
like they will be killed in battle.
The philosopher Socrates remains, as he was in his lifetime
(469–399 B.C.E.),[1] an enigma, an inscrutable individual who,
despite having written nothing, is considered one of the handful of
philosophers who forever changed how philosophy itself was to be
conceived. All our information about him is second-hand. Certainly
he was impressive, so impressive that many others were moved to
write about him, all of whom found him strange by the conventions of
fifth-century Athens: in his appearance, personality, and behavior,
as well as in his views and methods.
He wrote no books. His acquaintances were tied to him by bonds of
friendship and admiration -- there was no formal bond of
discipleship.
In the story of his own life, which he told at the close of it,
he says that one of his friends, Chærephon, put the question to the
Oracle at Delphi, Whether any other man was wiser than Socrates? The
answer given was that there was none wiser. Not being conscious of
the possession of wisdom, Socrates was perplexed, till at last,
after testing the supposed knowledge of many distinguished men, he
interpreted the reply of the oracle as meaning that whereas other
men thought they knew, he was one of the few conscious of their own
ignorance.
"As for the penalty of death, no man,"he said,"knows
what it is, yet men fear it as though they knew it to be the
greatest of all evils. This is how men show their ignorance,
pretending to know what they do not know. For my part, knowing
nothing of Hades, I pretend to no such knowledge; but I do know well
that disobedience to a better person than myself, whether God or
man, is an evil and a shame; and I will not embrace certain evil, in
order to escape from one which, for aught I know, may be a
good."
"Ideals belong in a world that only the wise man can understand".
He had no particular beliefs on politics but did object to
democracy, but disliked its Athenian form. Basically, he objected to
any government that did not run on the basis of his ideas of perfect
governance. Socrates refused to enter politics because he could not
tell other people how to lead their lives when he didn't know how to
live his own. He thought he was a philosopher of truth, which he had
not fully discovered.
Socrates believed that wisdom was parallel to one's ignorance.
One's deeds were a result of this level of intelligence and
ignorance. He constantly connected the 'love of wisdom' with 'art of
love'.
Socrates believed also that one must concentrate more on self
development than on material things. He encouraged people to develop
friendships and love amongst themselves. Humans possess certain
basic philosophical or intellectual virtues and those virtues were
the most valuable of all possessions. To act Good and to be truly
Good from within is different and virtue relates to the Goodness of
the soul.
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