The Socratic Moment; A Modern Approach to the Socrate's Thought

The Socrate's life and thought have been surveyed and reinterpreted by different scholars. It seems that the most important questions of the classical and new political philosophy about the political good, human being and society have been owed to the Socrate's thought. This article tries to show that the major part of theoretical challenges in the field of contemporary political philosophy have been depends on theSocrate's thoughts and method. So after a short biography of the Socrate's I will discuss some of his ideas and thoughts about fundamental issues like the importance of questioning, critical thought in the public sphere, the nature of democracy and justice, to show that how his method and ideas still working in the contemporary world.