Socrates
THE ANSWER
"Socrates Louvre" — Photo by Copy of Lysippos (?) / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain
The gadfly of ancient thought.
He never wrote a word, yet he changed the trajectory of human reasoning forever. His methods still form the basis of modern debate.
Explanation
Did you know?
He famously claimed the only thing he knew was that he knew nothing.
The 5 Clues
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“He walked the streets asking questions that annoyed the powerful.”
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“A teacher who found death preferable to stopping his questioning.”
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“He was sentenced to end his own life by drinking a toxic brew.”
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“His greatest student wrote down the dialogues he supposedly held.”
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“The founding figure of Western philosophy based in ancient Athens.”
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