I am Socrates,born 470–399 BC,i was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought. An enigmatic figure, Socrates authored no texts and is known mainly through the posthumous accounts of classical writers, particularly my students Plato and Xenophon. These accounts are written as dialogues, in which Socrates and his interlocutors examine a subject in the