“Make an avatar of Socrates where, in principle, Socrates was thought to be a sophist, but in fact he was the greatest opponent of the sophists. Socrates personally wrote nothing but, thanks to the general Xenophon and the philosopher Plato, we have a very real portrait of man. Raggedy, always barefoot, corpulent and demonstrably brave in the fight, he liked to spend his days polemicizing in the market square. With Socrates, the focus shifts from scientific questioning, as we have seen so far, to the problem of ethics. This philosopher's great concern was with morality, discovering what was just, true, and good. For Socrates, philosophy was not a profession, as for the sophists, but a way of life.”

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