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    What Was Socrates Failure

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    Socrates’ Failure In producing a counter argument to Thrasymachus’ claim that justice is the advantage of the stronger‚ Socrates bases his argument enourmously on sentimentality and prejudice. He assumes that the virtues which are supposedly functioning in the realm of ideas can also work propably in the World. For example‚ in Socrates’ view‚ a doctor does not seek his own advantage‚ but the advantage of his patients. Yet‚ this view reflects the perfect ideal of a doctor in Socrates’ belief of

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    discussion between Polus and Socrates‚ they are trying to decide if suffering something unjust is worse and more shameful than actually doing what is unjust. Polus states that it is worse to suffer‚ but more shameful to commit‚ an unjust act. When Socrates begins his argument against this‚ he questions Polus on the distinction between what is admirable and good‚ and what is shameful and bad. In Polus’ eyes‚ these pairs of words do not hold the same meaning. However‚ Socrates believes that what is good

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    Glaucon Vs Socrates

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    there are two main characters of the Cave Socrates and Glaucon. Socrates stood out more and the author Plato. Socrates wises man in Athens and he’s kind of a jerk. The representation of the Socrates‚ human nature and the enlighten figure of language. Plato trying to tell the audience that there is darkness and light. Plato dialog forms how you get out of the cave into enlightened. Socrates and Glaucon are trapped into a situation. The decisions‚ options Socrates make are fade towards themselves. By the

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    measured by the standard of the gods‚ stately‚ proportionate sculptures of whom had been adorning the Athenian acropolis since about the time Socrates reached the age of thirty. Good looks and proper bearing were important to a man’s political prospects‚ for beauty and goodness were linked in the popular imagination. The extant sources agree that Socrates was profoundly ugly‚ resembling a satyr more than a man—and resembling not at all the statues that turned up later in ancient times and now grace

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    the book “The Last Days of Socrates”. The author of the book is Plato. Plato was born in Athens his father was named Ariston and his mothers name was Perictione. Plato became a pupil of Socrates when he was young. Plato attended his trial but he did not attend the execution of Socrates.(onelittleangel.com) The story describes how Socrates is being taken to trial for being accused of putting “wrong” thoughts into the minds of young men. Socrates goes to trial and explains himself and why he is innocent

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    Hobbes Vs Socrates Essay

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    Hobbes Leviathan‚ one might recognize the complete controversy between he‚ and Socrates. Socrates‚ was a man with little answers; he made you question things you did not know‚ and things you thought you knew. However‚ Hobbes‚ gives you immense immediate answers‚ and even claims that philosophers are wrong (page 57). Hobbes also claims that men has “restless desire of power after power” (page 58); he claims this explains how and why people act in a certain manner. Reflecting on our modern society‚ we

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    There are numerous charges against Socrates in the reading of The Apology. The basic charges against him include impiety‚ corrupting the youth‚ and theorizing about unknown topics. He does not believe in the gods that the state does‚ and therefore seeks for natural explanations to processes that occur in the world around him. He did not recognize the gods and introduced other new divinities. Socrates was charged with corrupting the youth. Due to the constant asking of questions and inquiry‚ it lead

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    I will becomparing and contrasting two gifted philosophers of the world; Socrates and Voltaire. The socrate is a philosopher who was accuser by the anthem of many different crimes

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    Platonic Justice

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    student of the Socrates‚ is in the pursuit of showing the weaknesses of where he lived-Athens-. He attacks ‘the democracy of Athens’ which found in the degenerated conditions and he came to propose construction of an ideal society in which justice symbolizes the virtuous‚ since Plato believed justice is there to be the prescription for the evils. He used the Greek word "Dikaisyne" for justice which refers the work ‘morality’ or ‘righteousness’. The English word justice and the Greek

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    Justice

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    Justice” What is justice? Is it when a person’s demise makes society feel better? Or is it when a felon gets acquitted of all charges brought against him? Wherever there is justice‚ there is obscurity. Before the summer of‚ Auschwitz was not the most lethal of the six Nazi extermination camps. The Nazis had killed more Jews at Treblinka‚ where between and Jews were killed in the 17 months of its operation‚ yet during the summer of Auschwitz overtook the other death camps not only in the number

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