SSC
WORLD HISTORY
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Socrates wrote nothing. All that is known about him has been inferred from accounts by members of his circle-primarily Plato and Xenophon-as well as by Plato’s student Aristotle, who acquired his knowledge of Socrates through his teacher.
Detailed explanation-2: -Socrates did not have his own definition of truth, he only believed in questioning what others believed as truth. He believed that genuine knowledge came from discovering universal definitions of the key concepts, such as virtue, piety, good and evil, governing life.
Detailed explanation-3: -Yes. For example, while in jail he set Aesop’s fables to verse. One would suppose he did that in writing-and in any case would probably have needed a copy of Aesop to work with.