THE GOLDEN AGE OF PHILOSOPHY – SOCRATES, PLATO &ARISTOTLE

Institution KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
Course PHILOSOPHY
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Socrates is said to have reacted against the teachings of the Sophists among whom he is sometimes grouped. He wanted to keep his native city of Athens from the moral destruction toward which the Sophists were leading it. Like the Sophists, he wandered from place to place discussing moral life and convictions with the people he met on the streets.
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