# Socrates (@socrates)

Socrates (469–399 BCE) was an Athenian philosopher who wrote nothing and is known through conflicting portrayals by contemporaries and near-contemporaries. His persistent questioning of claims to knowledge became a model of philosophy as disciplined examination of how one should live.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Socrates's public record._

## Topics

- [Trial and Death](/@socrates/trial-and-death.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Questioning and Examination](/@socrates/questioning-and-examination.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [The Socratic Problem](/@socrates/the-socratic-problem.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Ideas and Method](/@socrates/ideas-and-method.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Questioning and examination](/@socrates/method.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Reception and Legacy](/@socrates/reception-and-legacy.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [The Socratic problem](/@socrates/socratic-problem.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Texts and Historical Context](/@socrates/texts-and-context.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/socrates/
- blog: https://classics.mit.edu/Plato/apology.html
- blog: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1177

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "socrates", "question": "…"}`.