Alain de Botton presents the case of Socrates, the Athenian who spent his life questioning the assumption that people in authority must be right. Walking the streets of Athens and standing in the agora where Socrates once cornered his fellow citizens with questions, de Botton reconstructs the method that got him labeled a public nuisance and eventually a threat: refusing to accept received wisdom without logical proof. The film uses this ancient argument to make a modern point about confidence and conformity, suggesting that the anxiety we feel about disagreeing with popular opinion is the same anxiety Socrates spent his career trying to dismantle. Actors and location filming in Greece illustrate the trial and death sentence that followed his refusal to stop asking questions. Part of a series applying historical philosophers to everyday unhappiness, this episode treats Socratic questioning not as a classroom exercise but as a practical tool for deciding what you actually believe versus what you have simply absorbed from people who sound certain.