Axia College Material Appendix C Socrates‚ Plato‚ and Aristotle Matrix Fill in the matrix below‚ denoting each philosopher’s view concerning the topics listed. Write NA if there is no record in the textbook of the philosopher’s view on the specific topic. Then‚ using the information you inserted into the matrix as a guide‚ write a 350-700 word response describing how Socrates’‚ Plato’s‚ and Aristotle’s philosophies relate to each other. |
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life of Socrates‚ what we do know about him has passed down from his students. Socrates was born in Athens‚ Greece in the era of 470 BC‚ (judgment has been around literally since the beginning of time!). Socrates practiced his own method of critical thinking‚ know known as the Socratic Method of logic and philosophy. Plato writes‚ Socrates would deny any type of payment for teaching his critical thinking skills to his students‚ he lived in great poverty. The Greek Government judged Socrates heavily
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is not in accord with Socrates’‚ who refutes it with much discontent by Thrasymachus. He is accused of being a sycophant in addition to not being capable of answering anything but only to provide refutations to any opinion mentioned before him (336c). Thrasymachus is begged not to leave the conversation and to stay and discuss what he has just revealed to come to conclusion as to what justice really entails. To discuss what Thrasymachus first defines justice as‚ Socrates points out that rulers
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Philosophy 1) Cephalu’s‚ Polemarchus and Thrasymachus definition of justice and Socrates objection to those definitions-point by point. - To Cephalic the definition of justice is being honest‚ that lying would be consider being injustice. Socrates respond to his definition of Justice saying that if you owe a madman his weapon in some sense if it belongs to him legally‚ and yet this would be an unjust act‚ since you know that he could harm someone with the weapon. So this can’t be justice‚ justice
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what is bad” (78a). During Socrates and Meno’s search to find out what virtue is‚ they “have found many virtues while looking for one” (74a). Their conversation had led to many different responses but one proved to be vastly interesting. Socrates states “No one wants what is bad” (78a). After many of Meno’s thoughts of what virtue was had been discarded‚ Meno believes “virtue is to desire beautiful things and have the power to acquire them” (77b). Socrates reply is that if the man that desires
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believe Socrates would agree with what President Clinton stated in his speech‚ if these people where so disgusted and disturbed by the government why did they not leave? This was an idea that Socrates expressed in the Crito. They had the freedom to live anywhere else‚ and yet they still decided to live in a country in which they believed was being suppressed by the government. Not only that‚ but they wrongly splattered the word patriot to justify their actions‚ which according to Socrates completely
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It is my opinion that the view of justice that is provided by Socrates is in fact the proper explanation of what it is to be just. It is not enough to appear just to people around you‚ you must be just. Even if you appear to be the most just and loved person in the world that means nothing if you cannot be at peace within your soul which means having a balance between the three parts. For if someone has an opportunity to steal something such as a computer‚ although they may be better off materially
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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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At one point during a philosophical debate between Socrates and Phaedo‚ Phaedo attempts to compares the human body to a lyre and the soul to the lyre’s harmony. Socrates‚ however‚ argues that this an inaccurate comparison. He explains that a harmony can be more and more fully harmonized or less and less fully harmonized‚ to which Phaedo confirms. Socrates then claims that a soul cannot be neither more nor less of a soul than another‚ a fact which Phaedo also confirms. Consequently‚ if the harmony
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citizens at the time believe Socrates was corrupting the youth and refusing to recognize the gods‚ recognized by the state. Well Socrates was not corrupting the youth but only asking questions‚ it is known as dialectic today. Socrates defends himself by saying he did nothing wrong. In the Apology Socrates says “ Is there anyone who would rathe be injured than benefited by those who live with him” and Meletus answer certainly not. Well Socrates asks Meletus if Socrates corrupts the youth intentionally
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