Socrates The Apology

Plato thinking was highly influenced by Socrates as evidenced in his book, “The Apology”. It depicts Socrates as one who was extremely interested in morality, living a good life and mostly caring for the soul. To him, there are no better blessings than those of God. Therefore, he was an ambassador of ethics (Plato & In Richards, 1966). In his writings, Plato brings out the aspect of general knowledge as being what people believe without need for foundational proof. Any act of believing otherwise from the criterion is termed as ignorance and is even punishable in courts of law. A good example used by Plato while writing about Socrates, is that he once found himself in a court of law for believing in other gods and making the youth deviate from
The Physiological, Metaphysical and Epistemological
Notably, in distinguishing general knowledge and right opinion, Plato uses the three approaches; psychological otherwise known as the virtue of happiness and ethics, metaphysical based on what is there and finally epistemology which involves logic or perception. Plato brings out Socrates in a dialogue setting where he applies the physiological approach through an inquiry in a court of law. He talks of his belief on a superior god who has called him to serve the city through philosophy. He asks them whether on a balance of probability they would choose to do good over evil. Since he is on trial, putting his defense would normally be expected to accord him a platform to beg for pardon even when what he is accused of is not true. He puts it across that general knowledge dictates he pleads with the jury to show mercy to him as a father with children and responsibilities at home. This is normally what happens during a trial, as people use the good of their family to escape their evils. On the contrary, right opinion was that his values and
In understanding these relations, it was important for me first to understand the contextual meaning of the words. Psychology simply has to do with the mind. What as a human being you know, therefore, end up thinking or acting on it depending on the surrounding or information that is at your exposure. Additionally, I understand psychology to be a branch of science that relates to knowledge of choices, good or bad in equal measure and how we chose to act on it while fully aware that consequences exist.
On the term epistemology, it simply means process involved in understanding or knowing more about knowledge, how it comes to existent in addition to best ways of acquiring knowledge. It therefore involves perception or logic, the language used and beliefs among those who seek to understand knowledge (Plato & Jowett, 1990).
Metaphysical is a branch of philosophy that is mainly concerned with the property of the subject matter. It is used to answer the question of what exist. If something is in existence, there is a force or reason behind it or how human being act. For example good moral are attributed to religion, gods. The three approaches are interdependent as approaches in the branch of philosophy as they seek to give answers to what is knowledge, whether it exists and on how to acquire knowledge and classify it to enable people understand if what they have is the right knowledge or what they claim