ARGUMENT PAPER I APOLOGY: DEFENSE OF SOCRATES PLATO 40C-41C PHILOSOPHY 2010 20 SEPTEMBER 2011 WALTER A. JENKINS JR Plato once said‚ “No one knows whether death‚ which People fear to be the greatest evil‚ may not be the greatest good.” Throughout the history of mankind‚ man has been fascinated with the mystery surrounding death. For many it is a phenomenon which is feared and for others it is a salvation from the misery and suffering of everyday life. In Plato’s “Apology”‚ Socrates has
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Present a short critical response to the issues raised by Sowden in his paper‚ ‘plagiarism and the culture of multilingual students in higher education abroad’. In your response you should support or challenge some of Sowden’s arguments using evidence. Plagiarism is likely to be a hot issue to the public. In Sowden’s article‚ he claims that the cultural differences are the main key to plagiarism which mostly happens in Asia. On the other hand‚ evidences show the culture-specific concept may be
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Plagiarism : Reasons and How To Curb It Recent studies suggest that plagiarism had been exaggerated especially among university students nowadays. The students often procrastinate their homework or assignments until last minute. At the end‚ they try to finish up their assignments by copying directly from their friends or other medias without giving any credit to the original authors. The unaware of this problem causes students practicing plagiarism. Plagiarism is a word from Latin‚ plagiarius which
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Comparison between Crito and Apology For these two articles that we read in Crito and Apology by Plato‚ we could know Socrates is an enduring person with imagination‚ because he presents us with a mass of contradictions: Most eloquent men‚ yet he never wrote a word; ugliest yet most profoundly attractive; ignorant yet wise; wrongfully convicted‚ yet unwilling to avoid his unjust execution. Behind these conundrums is a contradiction less often explored: Socrates is at once the most Athenian‚ most
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Plagiarism according to dictionary.com is an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author ’s work as one ’s own‚ as by not crediting the original author. When a student intentional uses some else original thoughts without properly citing the author’s work is clearly plagiarism. Some mistaken plagiarism with a student not properly citing work or under citing an author‚ which leads to a possible
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Devlin’s View of Plagiarism Dudley Erskine Devlin identifies plagiarism as a major problem among students in America. Cheating has become easier to do with the widespread use of the internet and the opportunity to find the answers to virtually anything online. Devlin includes the statistic of college and high school students who cheat and what is being done to prevent it so far like educating the students. Although teaching kids about plagiarism and enforcing honor codes does reduce the amount
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news articles. An example of plagiarism would be how First Lady Melania Trump plagiarized parts of a televised speech from former First Lady Michelle Obama. An example of misrepresentation would be an investigative reporter not getting the right facts that they need before publication of the article. I will analyze the ethical problems that are observed between plagiarism and misrepresentation. Next‚ I will explain how they went against ethical reasoning. Plagiarism and misrepresentation are two
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Jonathan Layne Philosophy 104 March 15‚ 2011 Socrates: The Apology and Crito Socrates believed that his purpose‚ as a moral individual‚ was to achieve true wisdom of virtue and justice. With this considered‚ one may ask‚ "Then why did he accept punishment for crimes he didn’t commit?" Socrates didn’t care for fate‚ because he was only concerned for whether or not he and others were doing the right thing. This belief is shown to be evident when Socrates says‚ "You are sadly mistaken‚ fellow
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state to become fragile. Socrates questioning the citizens on their ideals only adds to the fragility of the state‚ pushing it closer to a state of crisis. In the play Oresteia‚ Athena warns the Athenians to be weary of internal threats. During the Apology‚ Socrates is called and can be viewed as an internal threat‚ jeopardizing the safety of other Athenians and drawing on their fear to start an uprising against the government. Socrates also shows the virtue of arrogance in Plato’s piece‚ choosing his
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Detecting Plagiarism Sarah Crowhurst GEN/105 5/10/2013 Elicia Brannon-Little The paper that was written for this assignment was found to be 97% similar to another article found online. Academic honesty is important because the whole point of academics is learning the subject. If you take material from the internet and just copy it‚ you’re not learning the subject‚ you just copy and pasted what was already available online. Next time for your paper please put information into your
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