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Socrates favoured _truth_ as the highest value, proposing that it could be discovered through reason and logic in discussion: ergo, dialectic. Socrates valued rationality (appealing to logic, not emotion) as the proper means for persuasion, the discovery of truth, and the determinant for one's actions. To Socrates, _truth_, not _aretē_, was the greater good, and each person should, above all else, seek truth to guide one's life. 

Wiki "dialectics"



	* Virtue—all virtue—is knowledge.
	* Virtue is sufficient for happiness.
 
 
The idea that there are certain virtues formed a common thread in Socrates' teachings. These virtues represented 
the most important qualities for a person to have, foremost of which were the philosophical or intellectual virtues. 
Socrates stressed that "virtue was the most valuable of all possessions; the ideal life was spent in search of the Good.
 
 
Socrates "truth",  was (is) intellectual excellence  
 
Although he claims he is not himself a teacher (Apology). His role, he claims, is more properly to be understood as 
analogous to a midwife (μαῖα maia). Socrates explains that he is himself barren of theories, but knows how to bring 
the theories of others to birth and determine whether they are worthy .The one thing Socrates consistently claimed to have 
knowledge of was "the art of love", which he connected with the concept of "the love of wisdom", i.e., philosophy. 
He never actually claimed to be wise, only to understand the 
path a lover of wisdom must take in pursuing it.
 
 
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