Status Updates From Before and After Socrates

I find it interesting it took a whole era of philosophers to ask the first introspective question (that we have recorded) which changed the entire discorce from the external (studying nature and things through causes and components) to the internal (studying self and asking “why”). Funny how collectively it took people awhile to even have an introspective thought, reminds me of Kants def of Age of Enlightenment

Consisting of four lectures given in Cambridge, 1932, F.M. Cornford (author) notes the book is a general overview of the impact Socrates had on Western philosophy due to the lecture’s time restraints and the shear mass of nuance in the topic. Cornford lays out the question to answer, what were Socrate’s contributions to Western philosophy that warranted categorizing the eras before, during, and after by him.