Beliefs and Reality Merissa Manful California State University‚ San Marcos Making sense of the complexity in our behaviors‚ natural phenomina and our own beliefs is not an easy task. Psychology gives us a way to empirically test the complicated‚ interrelated and controverse topics we face in life in order to seek some correlation or truth about the world individuals experience. Psychology today was not the same as it was in the time of the
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Socrates to prove his point of view‚ he did not approve of the premise. In Protagoras‚ he said that knowledge could not be enslaved by other affections‚ including happiness. Knowledge and wisdom are the most powerful determinants of human beings (Plato‚ Protagoras‚ 352c-d). The purpose of Socratic’s argumentation is to make people admit that weakness is impossible. Since most people believe Hedonism‚ he uses this premise which most people considered to proof his argument and help him to persuade
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speakers‚ and philosophers who were paid to use rhetoric. For the first time in history‚ philosophy became a job to earn money by selling intellectual skills. They were spin doctors of that period. There were some famous sophists such as Protagoras‚ Gorgias‚ Hippias‚ Prodicus‚ and Antiphon‚ among others. They made their living by selling their intellectual skills to those who wanted to get a professional career and could afford to learn. Sophists offered an expensive private education that poor people
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Socrates‚ Polus and the Two Miserable Dwarves History of Ancient Philosophy Christopher P. Camp‚ Jr February 18th‚ 2013 In part of Plato’s Gorgias‚ Socrates begins a debate with a student of the orator‚ Gorgias‚ named Polus. Polus and Socrates argue about if someone who commits unjust acts and is not caught is more miserable than someone who was caught for their unjust acts. Socrates argues for the position that the person is less miserable if they are punished. Polus finds this absurd and
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1 Towards the beginning of this passage‚ Socrates gets Laches to agree to a new definition of courage. What is it? (5 marks) In the beginning of the passage Socrates gets Laches to agree that wise endurance is the definition of courage “Socrates: so according to your account‚ wise endurance will be courage. Laches: so it seems”. 2 What conclusion do Socrates and Laches reach at the end of the passage? Why might Laches be surprised by this conclusion? (5 marks) By the end of the passage
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them. More Sophists were Protagoras‚ Gorgias‚ Prodicus‚ Hippias‚ Thrasymachus‚ Lychophron‚ Callicles‚ Antiphon‚ and Cratylus. Socrates didn’t accept any fee but professed a self-effacing posture and talked about Sophists and even mentioned that they were better educators that he was. Some consider him to be a sophist while others like himself do not. Plato‚ a student of Socrates‚ describes Socrates as proving some sophists wrong in several Dialogues. Plato was the reason of the view saying the
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In Plato’s text Phaedrus‚ readers get different nous of attitude in comparison to Plato’s Gorgias‚ based on the topics being discussed. Phaedrus touches on the studies of art‚ and how to correctly practice them‚ and the author‚ Plato also goes into depths of details about inner body studies such as the soul‚ madness and lovers. Within the text‚ Plato refers to the platonic soul‚ this concept that Plato discusses had a lasting impression throughout my reading‚ this is because if one is trying to
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in a form of discussion now called the Socratic Method‚ where Socrates critiques the positions of the other characters in order to find flaws in inaccurate arguments. Although this method is prevalent even today‚ I will make the case that even when Plato himself is using it‚ the Socratic Method‚ while not without benefits‚ is an extremely flawed way of conducting educational discourse. The Socratic Method is a dialectic method of argument‚ meaning that the participants are ideally emotionally detached
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possible‚ while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom and truth‚ or the best possible state of your psyche” (Plato‚ Apology of Socrates 32B-33A).
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this condescending army was Plato‚ whose own theories opposed those of the sophists in numerable . Anyone who has read some of Plato’s writing can tell you that what he had to say about Protagoras‚ Gorgias‚ Prodicus and the other sophists was by no means benevolent‚ and according to G.B. Kerferd‚ nor was it a completely factual description of them. Unfortunately‚ since these innacurate depictions are all we have left‚ the generations that were to come accepted Plato’s hostile opinion of
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