Do you think Socrates can logically refute practically everyone?

Yes, but he must also refute himself in the process. If all perspectives are only relatively true and not absolutely true, then nothing you can say can have absolute truth and can be refuted. However even Socrates attempt at refuting someone is still a perspective and not absolute. His message points to a place beyond all perspectives, a place which comes before all thought, I'm speaking about awareness, the only thing which cannot be doubted or refuted. So yes and no. He can refute everyone, including himself, in fact he's so good he can even refute his refutes of refuting. But what he can't refute is the fact that he is aware. And awareness can't really be talked about since it comes before any utterance of anything. Awareness is absolute because it cannot be refuted. It's impossible to doubt the fact that you are aware, everything else can be doubted or refuted to be absolute.

No. Asking a question for each answer is not a refutation, even when you succeed in making someone contradict himself. Once he goes over everything you caused him to say, he would find that your questions contained fallacies.

You can't talk someone around in a circle like that without using fallacies. What Socrates did could cause anyone to say the sun is cold and the night is bright, if you use enough of those fallacious questions.

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2: in plato's books people even address that Socrates's style of debate consisted of trowing so much terminology at the people he was debating the debated person would have to come to the conclusion he knew less about the subject matter then Socrates. In modern times ancient Greek Socrates would have a lower education then almost every one else.

Reasons Why Socrates is Still Relevant Today

http://www.socialphy.com/posts/off-topic/8853/10-R...

Socrates – a man for our times

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/oct/17/socra...

Socrates and Modern Psychology

http://socrates.arts.ubc.ca/agora/2013/12/socrates...

http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2013/01/...

Socrates' purpose was not refutation in any sense of the word. His purpose was TEACHING and to foster the development of a sophisticated analytic approach to questions. Of course the powers to be at the time were not happy having their basic assumptions questioned or clarified - and you know what the outcome of his teaching was.

Although I am not religious in any sense of the word, it seems to me that Jesus (the historical person) similarly introduced ideas that the people of the time did not wish to confront.

Well perhaps not now - he is, after all, dead, but - generally yes. People are full of ideas, some true, some not, some they believe but have no business believing, etc. An analytical thinker could easily question most of us and show us to be over-extended in what we think we know about many things.

Well he proved the Gods were not Pious even though he lost by 4 votes at his trial and was put to death . Mind you the Gods of his time were certainly not very nice types

Everyone has their philosophies. These are their ideals. Since humans are not perfect their thoughts, ideals, and philosophies are imperfect.

1 Corinthians 2:11 For who among men knows the things of a man except the man’s spirit within him? So, too, no one has come to know the things of God except the spirit of God. 12 Now we received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit that is from God, so that we might know the things that have been kindly given us by God. 13 These things we also speak, not with words taught by human wisdom, but with those taught by the spirit, as we explain spiritual matters with spiritual words. 14 But a physical man does not accept the things of the spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot get to know them, because they are examined spiritually. 15 However, the spiritual man examines all things, but he himself is not examined by any man. 16 For “who has come to know the mind of Jehovah, so that he may instruct him?” But we do have the mind of Christ.