{"id":1558,"date":"2010-05-24T11:40:06","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T11:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/socrates\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T08:24:05","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T08:24:05","slug":"socrates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/socrates\/","title":{"rendered":"Socrates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/socrates.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-27194\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/socrates.gif\" alt=\"socrates\" width=\"216\" height=\"287\" \/><\/a>S<\/strong><strong>ocrates<\/strong> was born and died in Athens (c. 470-399 BC). He was responsible for the development of what became known as &#8216;Socratic dialogues&#8217;, in which a small number of participants would engage in discussing philosophical concepts<sup>(a)<\/sup>. Plato was responsible for expanding the use of such dialogues.<\/p>\n<p>Socrates\u00a0was also one of the characters in Plato\u2019s Atlantis dialogues, <em>Timaeus<\/em> and <em>Critias<\/em>. Although he left no writings, his ideas come to us through Plato and Xenophon. Like his mentor, Plato also had a rather negative view of using the written word for teaching, hence his use of dialogues. Socrates was Plato\u2019s teacher; together with Plato and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/aristotle\/\">Aristotle<\/a>, Plato\u2019s pupil, he formed what is often referred to as the Heroic Trinity of Greek philosophy.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Socratic_method\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Socratic_method<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Socrates was born and died in Athens (c. 470-399 BC). He was responsible for the development of what became known as &#8216;Socratic dialogues&#8217;, in which a small number of participants would engage in discussing philosophical concepts(a). Plato was responsible for expanding the use of such dialogues. Socrates\u00a0was also one of the characters in Plato\u2019s Atlantis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[133,132,1978,4476],"class_list":["post-1558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aristotle","tag-plato","tag-socrates","tag-xenophon"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69721,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions\/69721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}