Sukrat urdu book11/14/2022 ![]() ![]() ![]() Socrates concentrated his attention on the human world alone. Yet a careful study of the Quran and the various schools of scholastic theology that arose under the inspiration of Greek thought disclose the remarkable fact that while Greek philosophy very much broadened the outlook of Muslim thinkers, it, on the whole obscured their vision of the Quran. “As we all know, Greek philosophy has been a great cultural force in the history of Islam. In his lecture “Knowledge and Religious Experience” Iqbal has referred to Socrates, and the influence of Greek philosophy on Islam. He left no book, but his teachings are contained in ‘The Dialogues of Plato’, a pupil of Socrates. He was tried and condemned to death by drinking poison. Two charges were levelled against him, firstly that he disbelieved In the gods of Greece, and secondly that he was corrupting the youth. ![]() His teachings were opposed to the beliefs of the people. Socrates identified the soul with conscious personality, with the capacity for rational activity. The Greeks of the period believed that the soul after death passed to the underworld. It is related that the oracle at Delphi declared Socrates to be the wisest of men. The basis of his ethics was the principle that knowledge is virtue and ignorance is vice. In his talks with the people he would ask simple questions and use simple and homely illustrations to bring out the point that he wanted to press. He adopted the dialectic way of teaching. In the early years he saw military service, but then he took to the philosophical and mystical way. Socrates was born in 469 BC and lived through the golden age of Athens. ![]()
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