Socrates Ever Timeless
Biscarra, Yvan Marionne A. 1PHL2
2014072719 15 May 2015
Theme: Ever Timely, Ever Timeless
Theories, Concept and Perception of knowledge “If it is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, as it had no willing association with the body in life, but avoided it and gathered itself together by itself and always practiced this, which is no other than practicing philosophy in the right way, in fact, training to die easily. Or is this not training for death?”
― Plato, Phaedo Socrates a great and famous philosopher from the Ancient Philosophy known for his wisdom and humbleness. An adversary to the sophist that socrates himself would criticize them. …show more content…
The act sophistry is the act of rhetorical twisting and manipulating the truth for the sake of practicality. Socrates criticize the sophist about the false knowledge or truth. He linked knowing and doing; in the sense of knowing the good will result to doing the good, hence saying that “knowledge is virtue”. Socrates also host and participates to debates or argumentation that is not going so far like the sophist’s bending the truth but to achieve the true nature of truth and some goodness. Socrates’ theory of knowledge the Intellectual Midwifery, the “argument of disproof or refutation”, found in his dialectic, Elenchus; although socrates never left a writing that is authored by himself, we can find some of his philosophy through the writings of his student named, plato. Composed of four steps, first would be that socrates interlocutor would start the speech or assert a thesis. Second, socrates will secure his interlocutor’s agreement to further …show more content…
The creation of law, saying that law begins only when there is also a sovereign to rule. For hobbes in the context of a logical truism that for the judicial or legal consciousness, a law is to be defined as a command of the sovereign. Hence, it follows that where the sovereign does not in reality or existing, there would be no law as well. Hobbes also points out that “there can be no unjust law”. Hobbes argues that there can be no unjust law, appearing that justice and morality begins within the sovereign; there are no principles of justice and morality that introduce and limit the acts of the sovereign. “To care of the sovereign , belongs the making of good laws. But what is a good law? By good law, i mean not just a law: for no law can be
2014072719 15 May 2015
Theme: Ever Timely, Ever Timeless
Theories, Concept and Perception of knowledge “If it is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, as it had no willing association with the body in life, but avoided it and gathered itself together by itself and always practiced this, which is no other than practicing philosophy in the right way, in fact, training to die easily. Or is this not training for death?”
― Plato, Phaedo Socrates a great and famous philosopher from the Ancient Philosophy known for his wisdom and humbleness. An adversary to the sophist that socrates himself would criticize them. …show more content…
The act sophistry is the act of rhetorical twisting and manipulating the truth for the sake of practicality. Socrates criticize the sophist about the false knowledge or truth. He linked knowing and doing; in the sense of knowing the good will result to doing the good, hence saying that “knowledge is virtue”. Socrates also host and participates to debates or argumentation that is not going so far like the sophist’s bending the truth but to achieve the true nature of truth and some goodness. Socrates’ theory of knowledge the Intellectual Midwifery, the “argument of disproof or refutation”, found in his dialectic, Elenchus; although socrates never left a writing that is authored by himself, we can find some of his philosophy through the writings of his student named, plato. Composed of four steps, first would be that socrates interlocutor would start the speech or assert a thesis. Second, socrates will secure his interlocutor’s agreement to further …show more content…
The creation of law, saying that law begins only when there is also a sovereign to rule. For hobbes in the context of a logical truism that for the judicial or legal consciousness, a law is to be defined as a command of the sovereign. Hence, it follows that where the sovereign does not in reality or existing, there would be no law as well. Hobbes also points out that “there can be no unjust law”. Hobbes argues that there can be no unjust law, appearing that justice and morality begins within the sovereign; there are no principles of justice and morality that introduce and limit the acts of the sovereign. “To care of the sovereign , belongs the making of good laws. But what is a good law? By good law, i mean not just a law: for no law can be