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Why is Socrates called Confucius in the west?
Socrates is often called Confucius in the west.

Socrates is a famous great philosopher and educator in Greece. He ranks alongside Sakyamuni, Jesus Christ and Confucius as the four great saints in the world.

Socrates is the father of western philosophy. (Of course, some people call him Plato, the proud disciple of Socrates. )

He is the first person in the history of western philosophy to seriously study the topic of how human beings must live, so he has a famous saying: a life without introspection is a life without survival value.

Socrates saw the extravagance and laziness of people's feelings in his early years, and took it as his duty to change customs and promote the theory of unity of knowledge and morality. In his later years, he argued with sophists in order to safeguard the value of objective truth, so he was accused of misleading the people with heresy and disrespecting the state religion, and was sentenced to death by taking poison.

Socrates' educational philosophy is to pursue perfection, cultivate moral character and develop psychological ability, and regard the purpose of education as the purpose of life. He believes that human beings can achieve perfection because they devote themselves to moral cultivation in order to complete their ideal personality.