Introductory Remarks
It is difficult, if not impossible, to talk or invite a correct and indisputable lecture on Socrates because it is difficult to attribute most of what is known of him to him. This is because as a philosopher, Socrates is known to have written nothing as his philosophy is anchored on a discursive method that has come to us as a dialecticalmethod. Thus, what is known of Socrates’ philosophical attributes have come to us through the writings of some of his contemporaries and younger interlocutors, the most famous being Plato through whose dialoguesthe intellectual world has come to the knowledge of Socrates’ deep and insightful thought process, especially in citizens’ duty and state’s responsibility anchored on an enlightened code of moral education coded in his well-known statement, “The unexamined world is not worth living”.
