Trial and Death of Socrates? In Ancient Greece‚ leading a good life is rather more complex than it is in today’s society. It is evidenced in Plato’s four dialogs in The Trial and Death of Socrates. Through the dialogues of Socrates we can learn that in Ancient Greece education‚ religion‚ society in general‚ law and values played a major role on a person’s way of living a good life. In the dialogues of The Trial and Death of Socrates‚ society condemned those such as Socrates for changing or questioning
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Works Cited As an Athenian philosopher‚ Socrates spent his life in constant pursuit of insight. He loved engaging in conversations that helped him derive philosophical views on a number of different issues. The birth of ideas through critical reasoning can be credited back to his method of teaching‚ which is now known as the Socratic Method. Although widely respected today‚ many of his teachings were found controversial in Athenian times. Socrates was placed on trial and put to death soon after
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of Plato’s most popular texts; Agathon‚ a Greek poet‚ gathers a group of men together in celebration. As the drinking party‚ or the symposium draws on the subject of love ‚ it’s meaning and it’s state soon comes up. Agathon decides that each man in attendance is required to deliver an encomium‚ or speech on the topic. Each man gives his own he recount of what he believes is the true nature of love. The last man to speak before Socrates is the host himself‚ Agathon. He decides that love is a young
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WWWWWWWWdfdhile each character is trying to adhere to the constitution of a eulogy (except for Socrates‚ who abandons this method when it is his turn to give a speech) we find that with every narrative‚ we are presented with a new speech-giving technique; Phaedrus begins his speech with a discussion of Love’s origins and ends it with a retelling of
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book‚ Plato placed a dramatic dialogue around the subjects "Love" and “Beauty.” Everyone who was invited by Agathon‚ the tragedian‚ had to give a speech in praise of Love (Eros). However‚ when it was Socrates’ term‚ he rebutted Agathon’s claim that Love is good and beautiful. At the end of Socrates’ questioning‚ he concluded that Love is neither beautiful nor good. After Agathon’s speech‚ Socrates first praises all the speakers before him and claims that he does not know how to give a eulogy‚ only how
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Plato’s Symposium Study Questions 1. Phaedrus 178a – 180b 2. Pausanias 180c – 185c 3. Eryximachus 185d – 188e 4. Aristophanes 189a – 193e 5. Agathon 194a – 197e 6. Socrates 198a – 201c 7. Diotima Part I 201d – 206b 8. Diotima Part 2 206c – 209e 9. Diotima Part 3 210a – 212b (SGR) 10. Alcibiades Part 1 212c – 217a 11. Alcibiades Part 2 217b-223a PHAEDRUS: 1. Who (or what) is love‚ according to Phaedrus? 2. According to Phaedrus why is love so beneficial? 3. Why is an army of lovers such
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philosophers at the party‚ such as: Phaedrus‚ Pausanias‚ Aristophanes‚ Agathon‚ and of course‚ Socrates. All of whom are very wise and make very good points about love. Aristophanes speaks about how he believes that long ago humans used to be one being‚ and that we were separated from our other half. Now we all are searching for the other half‚ to make us whole again. Although‚ Aristophanes speech made a lot of sense and made me think‚ Socrates speech is the one that truly spoke to me. He talked about how
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Plato was one of Socrates’ greatest admirers‚ and our knowledge of Socrates stems mostly from Plato’s dialogues. Plato wrote his dialogues so that his students could read them out to each other and from a phrase discuss what it is about. Plato’s thought is mostly recorded in the form of dialogues that feature Socrates as the protagonist. The symposium was written between the middle and the late period‚ and the figure of Socrates serves more as a mouth piece for Plato’s own views. For instance
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desire in a much broader sense‚ but in this discussion we are only considering only love of type eros‚ love as a kind of desire that exists between two human beings. Symposium‚ is a dialogue by Plato‚ about a dinner party in honor of the tragedian Agathon‚ after they have finished eating Phaedrus suggests that each person in turn should make a speech about the praise of god of love. Symposium not only gives us theory of Forms in Diotima’s discussion of the Form of Beauty‚ but it also gives us a number
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between a man and woman‚ love between a father and son‚ mother and daughter‚ etc. Many do not think of love as a desire. However‚ Socrates‚ through his speech in Plato’s Symposium puts love in a different light. Plato’s Symposium examines the topic of love through the speeches of six men. These six men include Phaedrus‚ Pausanias‚ Eryximachus‚ Aristophanes‚ Agathon‚ and Socrates. When first reading this text‚ I was very shocked at how pederasty was somewhat socially accepted and just thought that the men
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