Now a philosopher is basically somebody, it literally means lover of wisdom who is seeking out answers to truth. They're seeking out answers about the existence of life or about knowledge in different subject areas or value or reason and at that time period most philosophers were called sophists and sophists like Protagoras who was one of the more famous ones of his day were really people that were paid teachers. They were people that believed there was no universal truth. There was really only man and that man was the measure of all things and Socrates kind of disagrees with that. He believes there's a universal truth. Now the story is there is an oracle at Delphi that informs one of Socrates' friends to tell him that he's the smartest dude of the land and Socrates is like there's no way I'm the smartest guy. So he starts going around to the leaders and to the important people of Athens to kind of question them about what they know about life and he's figuring he'll find out that there's got to be someone smarter than him and he starts doing what's called the Socratic method.