In Confucianism, Confucius, the father of belief system, asserts five key social relationships: ruler to subject, father to son, husband to wife, elder to younger, and friend to friend. This doctrine is mimicked by Socrates in Plato’s The Last Days of Socrates, in where Socrates: justifies not running away from his death by defining the responsibilities between government and citizen, interprets the meaning of a philosophers life by constructing a hierarchy among God and humans, and then corroborates his theory of opposites by establishing the accord between death and life.
