An Tran Professor Nathan Poage PHIL 1301 July 15‚ 2013 Apology: Is Socrates Guilty or Innocent? The Apology is Plato’s accurate depiction of the Socrates’ own defense at the trial provoked by Meletus. However‚ besides current accusers‚ Socrates has to speak out to defense against former accusers who have created prejudices of him for long time. Former accusers prosecute Socrates for “studying things in the sky and below the earth” and “[making] the worse into the stronger argument” (Plato 18b-c)
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84 RUSSIAN STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY Russian Studies in Philosophy‚ vol. 42‚ no. 1 (Summer 2003)‚ pp. 84–95. © 2003 M.E. Sharpe‚ Inc. All rights reserved. 1061–1967/2003 $9.50 + 0.00. D.V. BUGAI Plotinus’s Treatise On the Virtues (I.2) and Its Interpretation by Porphyry and Marinus Manibus tatianae magistrae As is well known‚ Plotinus’s philosophy served as the starting point for the development of all Neoplatonism. It created the basic schema that set the framework for the thought
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Cited: Augustine‚ and John Kenneth Ryan. The Confessions of St.Augustine‚. Garden City‚ NY: Doubleday‚ 1960. Print. Plato‚ W. H. D. Rouse‚ and Matthew S. Santirocco. Great Dialogues of Plato: Complete Text of The Republic‚ The Apology‚ Crito‚ Phaedo‚ Ion‚ Meno‚ Symposium. New York: Signet Classic‚ 2008. Print.
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DOLOR‚ Anna Graciella I. September 5‚ 2012 BSPT 1 B-2 PHILO-19 Sir. Dino Cabrera Summary of Chapter 2 “THE GREEK PHILOSOPHY: SOCRATES‚ PLATO AND ARISTOTLE” There are many different philosophers who appear during the fifth century one of this were the Sophist came from the greek word sophisma and sphizo meaning “I am wise”‚ their philosophy influenced Greece that led to democracy. The Sophist
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Cited: Plato‚ G. M. A. Grube‚ and John M. Cooper. The Trial and Death of Socrates: Euthyphro‚ Apology‚ Crito‚ Death Scene from Phaedo. Third Edition ed. Indianapolis‚ IN: Hackett Pub.‚ 2000. 20-42. Print. Sophocles. "Antigone." The Three Theban Plays: Antigone‚ Oedipus the King‚ Oedipus at Colonus. Trans. Robert Fagles. New York‚ NY: Penguin‚ 1987. 57-128. Print.
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Socrates was in fact wise about God in his life and death as a philosopher in the classical Athens time period. To fully show he was wise about God‚ one must investigate what wisdom and who God is‚ and use textual evidence‚ or dialogues of Socrates‚ to prove his wisdom of God. In order to show that Socrates was in fact wise about God‚ one must first define what wisdom itself is. An English word with the stem word‚ weid‚ wid meaning “to see” (Mohr‚ p. 4). It can be defined as a type of knowledge
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‘Only a belief in embodied existence after death is philosophically justifiable.’ Discuss. Disagree- There is disembodied existence: Plato‚ Descartes‚ Christianity Key points: Embodied existence Life after death Philosophically justifiable Criticisms of embodied existence after death: 2- Long tradition of belief in disembodied existence- Plato believed we have immortal souls that leave body at death. 4- Theory of the Atman- Hinduism 6- ‘My essence consists solely in the fact that I am a thinking
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Great Britain: HarperCollins Manufacturing. Homer. Trans. Robert Fagles.(1990) The Iliad. New York: Viking Penguin‚ p11 in Unit Reader Plato. Apology. Trans. Hugh Tredennick & Harold Tarrant.(1993) The Last Days of Socrates: Eythphro‚ Apology‚ Crito‚ Phaedo. London: Penguin p57-58 in Unit Reader Segal. E.(ed). (1983). Oxford Readings in Greek Tragedy. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press‚ 1983‚p 177-210 Sophocles. Trans. Fagles. R.(1984) The Three Theban Plays: Oedipus The King. New York: Penguin
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Section 1: Socrates’ argument Socrates sits in a prison cell‚ sentenced to death. His wealthy friend Crito has come to speak with him as he waits for a ship from Delos to return and allow executions to begin. Socrates knows that he‚ “must die the day after the ship arrives (Plato‚ 44).” Socrates also knows that he is not guilty of the crimes he was convicted of‚ stating‚ “There have been many who have accused me to you for many years now‚ and none of their accusations are true (Plato 22).” It is
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himself‚ leaving much of his life a mystery. As mysterious as he was‚ today we look at him as the Father of Philosophy. Most of what we know about him was depicted through works that Plato‚ his pupil‚ had written about him. These works were Crito‚ Phaedo‚ Lysis‚ Symposium‚ Euthyphyro and Apology‚ and with them being written Socrates was remembered as being the greatest philosopher. Plato had used these works to describe Socrates at his best and was meant to be studied by the academy created by Socrates
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