‘Socrates’

Socrates, Plato’s teacher, was a thorn in the side of the Athenians. His questions framed in irony questioned their certitudes and caused them to think. Something which earned him no thanks as in his seventies he was sentenced to death by poisoning. A few hours before his death the “father of philosophy” looked back on his life and his thinking. Today, 2,400 years later, the thoughts of the “gadfly of Athens” have lost none of their pertinence.