Plato’s “The Death of Socrates”‚ a piece detailing Socrates’ death and his followers’ reactions to his passing‚ has been reflected on throughout history and is still relevant in its emotions and messages about death. Throughout the piece itself‚ many of his followers are upset over Socrates’s impending death‚ and yet‚ Socrates is not upset‚ and is actually scolding the others about their feelings and reactions. Socrates understands that his followers are not taking his sentence to death well‚ shown
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LITERATURE TERM PAPER SOCRATES NO FEAR IN DEATH [Type the author name] 4/15/2014 Socrates did not choose to begin now at 70 years old and make choices which would have been contrary to who he was. He believed living long doesn’t matter‚ living well does. He lived a good‚ just‚ and ethical life and was poor because his life was spent on more noble things of the search of true wisdom‚ not of earthly self-pleasures of physical matters. He was the father of Philosophy and roamed the
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To Socrates the connection of the good life and death are very important‚ and he talks about what a good life is in The Apology. So‚ what is a good life according to Socrates? And what is a good life’s relation to death? What do these two very opposing ideas have to do with each other? Well they have a lot more to do with each other than one would immediately think. First in order to understand the connection between these two antithetical concepts we have to understand what exactly Socrates means
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This essay states the comparisons of the death and crucifixion of Jesus Christ Socrates. The crucifixion of Jesus Christ is an event that occurred during the 1st century AD. Jesus‚ whom Christians believe to be the Son of God as well as the Messiah‚ was arrested‚ tried‚ and sentenced by Pontius Pilate to be scourged‚ and finally crucified Collectively referred to as the Passion‚ Jesus’ redemptive suffering and death by crucifixion represent the central aspects of Christian theology‚ including the
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The Death of Socrates is completed in 1787‚ oil on canvas painting by Jacques-Louis David‚ a French painter in the Neoclassicism period who’s born in Angst 30‚ 1748 and died on December 29‚ 1825. The painting’s dimension is 129.5cm x 196.2 cm‚ and it is located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Jacques-Louis David was born into a wealthy family in Paris. When he was 16 years old‚ he admitted to the Royal Academy of Painting Sculpture learning. After several failures in competitions and finding
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1. “Let us reflect in another way‚ and we shall see there is great reason to hope that death is a good. Either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness‚ or‚ as men say‚ there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if you suppose there is no consciousness‚ but a sleep like the sleep of him who is undisturbed even by the sight of dreams‚ death will be an unspeakable gain. If a person were to select the night in which his sleep was undisturbed even by
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people. Socrates proves Thrasymachos otherwise by arguing that being just is virtuous‚ wise and profitable and being unjust does not make people stronger nor more powerful. Those in power or rulers make laws that are just for themselves but Thrasymachos agrees that sometimes rulers make mistakes and make laws that are unjust to them‚ therefore‚ making them just or advantageous for the people they rule. Therefore‚ unjust people would not be more powerful in this case. Additionally‚ Socrates goes on
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The most noticeable comparison between Jesus Christ and Socrates was that the charges against them. They were both seen as an “evil” influence to the townspeople because of their different ways to see life and for their beliefs on religion. Jesus was considered a heretic because he preached monotheism in a polytheistic world. He called himself the messiah‚ a divine being and the son of God and the Jews saw that as a major offence. The Roman Government did not like that Jesus questioned the oppressiveness
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fear of death is in line with many key points in his philosophy that being what does one truly know about a topic. Socrates does not know what happens after death admitting this to the jurymen that vote for him it could be like a dreamless sleep‚ never aware only silent‚ or it could be the touted afterlife that many have spoken about. He just doesn’t know what awaits him only that he has ideas and both or neither could turn out to be true. This concept is key to his view of the fear of death as everyone
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In Plato’s dialogue Phaedo‚ there are a series of arguments presented by Socrates as proofs for the existence of the soul after death. The final and most convincing argument works as a direct application of Socrates’ idea of the Forms. Socrates begins to examine the question of whether the soul exists after death by establishing the basis upon which his proof must function. Socrates takes his idea of Forms to be the most certain of all of his theories and so he contends that it ought to be the basis
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