What is Socrates creed?

Answer 1

Socrates did not have an explicit creed to which he was attached. What he did have, however, like the rest of us, were certain operating principles that could be thought of as a kind of creed. He had one principle that was his most important. According to Plato, he stated it at his trial: "the unexamined life is not worth living" [APOLOGY, 38a]. To examine life is to put it to the test, to seek how to live it better. Socrates was a philosopher, and the word "philosopher" simply means "lover of wisdom." Therefore, Socrates seriously tried to live as wisely as he could, and he recommended that everyone else do the same. He believed that "a good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death" [APOLOGY 41d]. He thought of his principle task as that of being a good man. Since it is not obvious how to be a good person, he adopted the philosophic life in order to do his best to become a good person.