
Due to this, it brings up the question as to why it would willingly ally itself with Socrates and not go about its own things. However, given Socrates' claims, one would logically infer that the Daemon in question had a Unit Designation. Daemons, without being given a Unit Designation, tend to serve one purpose and one purpose alone until that purpose has been fulfilled and they cease to operate. Of course, no one would believe such a notion and was quickly shot down, or abruptly ignored, as very little information of this passage in his history speaks about it any further.
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He continues to create paradox after paradox, to the point that his own existence has been constantly deemed as a major paradox because his actions do not line up with some of his other actions, or even historical facts.ĭuring the Trial of Socrates, it became known that Socrates had been speaking with what he referred to as a Daemon, claiming that said Daemon gave him ideas. However, inversely, due to him claiming such a notion, that he knew that he knew nothing, it made him the wisest. It was during his observations of other humans that they, the humans, boasted about their wisdom, despite lacking it, which lead to his famous phrase. However, Socrates' philosophical views tended to be paradoxes, mainly due to them going against what humans would deem as common sense. Socrates was known as a wise man, but he, himself, did not truly deem himself as wise, where he became known as the man behind the phrase "I know that I know nothing".

Due to this, it is extremely difficult to discern whether Plato's philosophical findings come from Socrates, or they are his own, where several historians have given differing interpretations to this, leading to them dubbing this as the Socratic Problem.
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These documents depict Socrates in at least two different ways, one that is considered to truly be Socrates, and another to which Plato uses to convey his ideas from.

The documents that are found pertaining to Socrates are primarily found within Plato, a man who would consider himself a pupil to Socrates, where Plato has written his experience with Socrates, including Socrates' end at the Trial of Socrates, to which, interestingly enough, Plato himself did not attend. Unfortunately, he may be nothing but a myth, or simply a concept created by Plato and Xenophon, as there exists just about no records of Socrates' own works being written down by him. Living within Ancient Greece, Socrates was one one of the world's leading philosophers for western culture, given the epithet of King of Philosophy. One of history's greatest questions, the man who constantly questions but rarely answers, Rider's True Name is none other than Socrates.
