Why was Socrates called the gadfly of Athens? @CompassClassroom
Why was Socrates called the gadfly of Athens?  @CompassClassroom
Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 19 hours ago
This clip is from The Consequences of Ideas, a 35-lesson video course taught by Dr. R.C. Sproul that walks through the entire history of Western philosophy from a Christian worldview. From the pre-Socratics and Plato through Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes, Kant, Nietzsche, and the modern existentialists — Sproul shows how the great philosophers have shaped our culture's deepest assumptions about truth, beauty, meaning, and morality.
What this course will do for you:

- Trace the ideas that built — and are now unbuilding — the Western world
- Show how Christianity has answered each major philosophical challenge in history
- Equip you (or your students) to engage modern skepticism with confidence and clarity
- Connect philosophy, theology, and everyday life in a way that actually sticks

Designed for high school students, homeschool families, college students, and adult learners. No prior philosophy background required — Sproul makes 2,500 years of thought accessible and even enjoyable.
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Why was Socrates called "the gadfly of Athens?"

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