After Socrates explores the components of a just society‚ his reply to Glaucon is further explained by arguing for the soul’s division and also‚ more specifically‚ the account of the Tyrant. Plato has refuted each of Glaucon’s points in order to make Socrates reply more successful. The tyrannical man is the most unjustly man. He indulges in all his pleasures and sinks further into degeneracy (578a). Because of his desires and conflict to suffice his desires‚ he is left to resort to unjustly and
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Book One 1. What is justice? 2. How does one preform it? Cephalous and Socrates discuss age‚ death‚ and wealth. • As you get older you begin to value conversations more than things. • According to Cephalous‚ the greatest advantage to wealth is “setting on thing against another”. There is no need to fraud against others. You can also give as mush to the Gods as you want o It doesn’t matter how much you inherit‚ but it matters how much you earn Their discussion about justice (speak the truth and pay
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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 considered being unjust. Socrates responds to his definition of Justice by 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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Republic‚ Socrates outlines that this problem is not new and can be accurately shown in what he calls The Allegory of the Cave. The cave is a metaphorical situation whereby there are fictional prisoners in a fictional cave who only know the reality that is shown to them. According to Socrates‚ the prisoners are an example of people who do not live the life of philosopher and have never searched for universal truths. In other words‚ basically everybody. In order for them to escape the cave‚ Socrates says
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2710 Words Justice versus Injustice: An Interpretation of Socrates Dialogues The dialogical philosophy of Socrates‚ the extensity to which Socrates used dialogues and questions in the search for truth is well explicated in Plato’s book the republic‚ a compilation of what is widely acknowledged as Socrates’ contribution in the realm of knowledge. The republic‚ which comprises of book I to book X‚ exonerates a variety of Socrates dialogues in the endeavor to address problems of philosophy related
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In 399 BCE Socrates was wrongfully put to death. The charges and verdict were posted in the metroon (Greek temple): "Socrates is guilty of refusing to recognize the gods recognized by the state and introducing other‚ new divinities. He is also guilty of corrupting the youth. The penalty demanded is death‚" (Socrates). Regardless of the laws at the time‚ and the amount of discretion given to the court‚ the wrong moral decision was made. Socrates’ famous student‚ Plato‚ wrote about trial in Apology
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Socrates is known today as one of the greatest Philosophers. With his philosophical views‚ centuries ago‚ Socrates was brought to trial and cost his life due to his claims and charges were pressed against him. He was indicted of turning the worse argument into the stronger argument (28). Socrates was accused for not recognizing the gods acknowledged by the state‚ and was accused of being an atheist (36). He was despised by adults due to his inquisitions and answering a question with a question and
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has already been given and now Socrates and colleagues must make the decision to flee the city of Athens or stay and face his fate. In this conversation you have Critos point of view and Socrates. Based on Critos reasoning he states three reasons why Socrates should stay‚ the first two being selfish but the third hitting home. Critos first argument is that if Socrates does not get away‚ then he will hurt crito in two ways A. Crito will lose a great friend when Socrates is killed B. His notoriety will
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by examining the characteristics of two different characters in the philosophical works of Plato. These two characters are Meno and Socrates‚ from the dialogues Meno and Apology. Meno is Thessalian general that had the main goal in life to get rich and have power. He did not care about anyone else besides himself‚ and could not take anyone seriously (Xenophon). Socrates on the other hand was a Greek philosopher that was put on trial for corrupting the youth of Athens‚ was accused of being a Sophists
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Still‚ there are many people who are in opposition to Socrates’ decision of remaining in prison and firmly waiting for his execution. Some critics would claim that Socrates is causing harm by accepting his execution and bringing an end to his life as a teacher. Yet‚ this claim is refuted because whether Socrates was executed‚ or he chose to escape and fled into exile‚ he would not have been able to teach the Athenian people either well. Also‚ he is not harming others through his death because of
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