Risedek filsafat inggih punika pangejaran sane mapan sadurung Socrates, Cicero nganggep nike dados anak kapertama sane maktayang filsafat tuun langsung saking swargan, tempatina ring kota - kota, kasebaran ring dalam kaluarga, lan mewajibkan mantuk ring manureksa amerta lan moral lan dharma miwah adharma."
While philosophy was an established pursuit prior to Socrates, Cicero credits him as "the first who brought philosophy down from the heavens, placed it in cities, introduced it into families, and obliged it to examine into life and morals, and good and evil."