whole of the dialogue takes place at Socrates’ prison cell‚ where he awaits his execution just days away. It started with Socrates waking up and finding his friend and loyal disciple Crito there. When Socrates asked how Crito got inside the prison at that early an hour‚ Crito told him that he simply knows the guard and has done the guard some favor. Crito then informed Socrates that the ship from Delos has already come in and tomorrow will be his execution. Socrates then told Crito about a dream he had
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Socrates’ claim that the “unexamined life is not worth living” is very true. Imagine if you were to just go through the motions from birth to death and never be able to put meaning to any of it‚ why do it at all? Going through the motions is just a step in life‚ however learning which motions to repeat and which should never be repeated again is how life is measured. Examine everything you do from your morning ritual to your nightly routines. In the morning‚ you brew some coffee or stop by your favorite
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In Plato’s Republic‚ Socrates goes to great lengths to explain and differentiate between the ideas of opinion and knowledge. Throughout society‚ most common men are lovers of sights and sounds. "Lovers of sights and sounds like beautiful sounds‚ colors‚ shapes‚ and everything fashioned out of them‚ but their thought is unable to see and embrace the nature of the beautiful itself (Republic 476b)." The few who do recognize the beautiful itself are followers of the sight of truth‚ the philosophers
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Purposely difficult and intentionally obsessive‚ Plato’s Phaedrus is an exceedingly difficult read that defies all conventional logic as a piece of discourse. The text is extremely subjective‚ open to interpretation and individual creativity as to what or whom the narrative is about. Written by Plato‚ a close disciple of Socrates‚ this text is set along the Illissus river where Phaedrus and Socrates meet for a day of speech‚ debate‚ rhetoric and okay flirting. Phaedrus leads of the day and recites
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and video games‚ etc. Other experts say that the world would be so different without all the technology that we have so far. The internet and T.V are probably the two biggest technologies that are affecting people now. Also many of the video games today are very violent and it would be bad for the kids who play. But youth can’t imagine their life without video games. When the T.V came out people didn’t know what they would do with it and now people can’t even live without it. Holly Cefrey said that
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be even more powerful‚ because they compel us to peer‚ metaphorically‚ into our own souls. In West Midlands‚ England‚ they placed a pair of eyes around town on posters. It showed that the people are more honors and have more manners in places they feel they are being watched. I know it’s comforting to believe that there’s a unique individual version of each of us but there isn’t. We are simply‚ the Good or the bad. The environmental shapes and reshapes us as fast as we can walk from one part of the
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Ancient Greece Olympics Today’s Olympics have changed a lot. The Olympics in Greece focused mainly on the gods. The Greeks made sacrifices to the gods on the first and third day of the Olympic Games (Ancient). That is not how they focus today at all. In fact‚ many people don’t believe in the gods being more than myths made up by desperate people in desperate times. The athletes have changed as well‚ there are female athletes as well as male athletes in today’s Olympics. There used to be only free
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sciences of astronomy‚ meteorology‚ and biology. Aristotle analyzed the faculties of the soul as nutritive‚ perceptive‚ and intelligent‚ and he also discussed memory‚ sleep‚ dreams‚ and aging. At the Lyceum 158 Greek constitutions were gathered‚ and Aristotle’s work On the Athenian Constitution has been useful in understanding the history of Athenian politics. Although Aristotle agreed with his teacher Plato that poetry and drama are imitations‚ he disagreed in finding redeeming value for these arts and
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In this week’s readings‚ my comprehension of love expanded via Plato’s Symposium. Similar to the Shiva Purana‚ some of the eulogies given in the text perpetuated males as the dominant gender. Furthermore‚ the text‚ especially Socrates eulogy‚ left me with several inquires. To begin‚ a parallel between the works is the concept of the importance of males and the dehumanization of females. For instance‚ in the Shiva Purana‚ although Shiva and Parvati were supposedly “in love‚” the only love prevalent
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important role in Socrates’ apology‚ showing how our historical development seems predetermined by a higher force or God. Aquilles‚ similar to Socrates followed the Oracle of Delphi prophecies‚ which not only determined his fames but his death too. Thus‚ Plato use of Palamedes in the Apology clarifies‚ then‚ Plato’s desire to seek for knowledge and immortality after his death and being closer to others such as Palamedes and Ajax rather that with others who lack knowledge. So Socrates doesn’t’ fear death
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