Socrates never wrote any texts—his ideas are known through his student Plato.
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Socrates (c. 470–399 BCE) is mainly known via Plato’s dialogues and other contemporaries like Xenophon. This creates the “Socratic problem”: distinguishing Socrates’ views from Plato’s.
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