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Socrates' Method for Testing Philosophy
Socrates was a radical figure because in ancient Athens philosophers like the sophists mainly taught wealthy young Athenian males aristocrats. He did philosophy with rich people poor people Athenians but also many foreigners with free men and slaves with prostitutes. One of his most famous students was a guy who had been sex trafficked and was enslaved and made to work in a brothel in Athens. The Pythagorean's had female students but philosophers in general didn't do philosophy with women.