So what we do know about him, we're going to know from his student Plato because Plato wrote everything down in what were called dialogues which were recollection or an imaginary conversation that he's having with his teacher Socrates but I'm getting off track. Now Socrates is thought is born near the city state of Athens around 469 BCE in the golden age of Greece. This is where people are learning and growing and building and sculpting and there's democracy. It's a wonderful world. Now he's born in moderate means, his mother was a midwife, his father was a sculptor. Socrates thought that he was a soldier at a certain point who fought very valiantly with a lot of courage, saved a lot of lives, did a lot of great things but then he wants to be a philosopher. Now a philosopher is basically somebody, it literally means lover of wisdom who is seeking out answers to truth.