A researcher wants Socrates's own surviving books as direct evidence for his ideas. What problem will the researcher encounter?
His books survive only in Egyptian translation.
His autobiography survives without its final chapter.
Socrates left no writings of his own.✓Correct answer
His dialogues were written under Aristotle's name.
Explanation
No writings by Socrates survive because he is not known to have composed philosophical works of his own. Accounts by Plato and Xenophon are therefore mediated portrayals, unlike the proposed autobiography.