Socrates

Within the Republic, Plato comprehends some of his most developed philosophical views through the extended exploration concerning the fundamental principles in conducting a human life. By his employment of Socrates as his spokesperson, the reader learns of a society in which a merited aristocracy would rule, thus resulting in a civilization where all citizens are equal and no one is looked on as an alien. Instead, each citizen would simply fulfill their dictate of civil justice with the resulted effect being an emphasized state of activity rather than achievement. To begin the transition, Socrates describes the necessary removal of stories within Greek Methodology, as he did not feel they provided the proper foundation in influencing young
That is the time when the character is being moulded and easily takes any impress one may wish to stamp on it” (Cordford 68). From the beginning, the guardians education is primarily moral in it’s defining elements, emphasizing a systematic acceptance of beliefs and behaviours rather than advocating for the development of critical or independent thinking. Socrates describes a child’s unlearned ability to differentiate between fiction and falsehood, unitarily representing the need for an education that does not inspire an imagination but instead establishes a basis for a
I am a woman with a wisdom strong enough to control her ever-growing appetite to learn. I have built an internal framework to adjust to my incoming ordeals. I have detached the importance of my appearances from my reality and reapplied them to spiritual growth, and in the process of building my understandings of life to contrast with other potentials, I have begun to appreciate how far I have come. I fight the act of being formed by illusion because I know the dangers behind a blind set path. My hope is that in my pursuits to enlighten those that I love with this same superior understanding of self, I will not be concerned with the potential outcomes of misinterpretation. Socrates was a man that believed he could live the enlightened life; however, even he was killed. Ironically, it wasn’t until I marked my soul with the ordeals, the mimesis, the corruptibility of my comfort with good and discomfort with the bad, the struggle between body and mind, and the act of overcoming the noble lie, that I was able to understand exactly who I am. “Such a power of constantly preserving, in accordance with our institutions, the right conviction about the things which out, our ought not, to be feared, is what I call courage” (Cordford