Socrates‚ the father of philosophy‚ and teacher: Is he corrupt? Did this man‚ who still teaches students thousands of years after his life ended‚ earn capital punishment? Was it fair to receive such severe punishment for teaching the youth to ask questions? Was an innocent person murdered? Despite it being the unpopular answer to the question‚ Socrates did deserve his penalty‚ but only through the perspective of the Athenians. The reasons are simple: Socrates really seemed to have committed the crime
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Sophocles’ play "Antigone" illustrates the conflict between obeying human and divine law. The play opens after Oedipus’ two sons Eteocles and Polyneices have killed each other in a civil war for the throne of Thebes. Oedipus’ brother in law Creon then assumes the throne. He dictates that Eteocles shall receive a state funeral and honors‚ while Polyneices shall be left in the streets to rot away. Creon believes that Polyneices’ body shall be condemned to this because of his civil disobedience and
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Socrates undermines the claim that he is intentionally corrupting the youth by asking Meletus a series of questions that make him explain his reasoning for accusing Socrates of this crime. Socrates would start by placing Meletus into a hole with his many questions asking who exactly was good for the youth and it turned out to be everyone but Socrates. He continues this argument by bringing up why would he corrupt the youth when they could potentially be his neighbors one day. It is common sense that
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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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Socrates was a man that questioned all. He looked into the words people spoke discovering that they were mere soap bubbles. Why he did this‚ only Socrates knows. He believed that a life not looked into was a life that could have been done without. What did Socrates mean by this? Possibly that a life lived only on the surface was meaningless. If one could not dive deep into the oceans of his or her own thoughts it would be better for them to drown‚ so to speak. Perhaps the philosopher was trying to
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Socrates’ demonstration with the slave boy‚ is an effort to use mathematical reasoning to illustrate the process and the importance of keeping an active mind. Simultaneously he is using mathematical reasoning to illustrate how a similar process of reasoning is used in virtually every decision that we make. When Socrates asks the slave boy to find the length of a side of the square with the area of 8‚ he finds that the answer can neither be 2‚ nor 3. The manner in which Socrates poses this question
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and what knowledge is. In this work‚ Socrates and Theaetetus discuss knowledge and its definition‚ which the character of Theaetetus tries to put into. He says that knowledge is perception‚ knowledge is true judgment‚ and‚ finally‚ knowledge is true judgment with an account. Socrates finds each of these undesirable and tells Theaetetus that he benefits from discovering what he doesn’t know and that he should approach the topic in the future. One of Socrates’ more enjoyable discussions with the pupil
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world beyond his lifetime and culture‚ as time passed his reputation only increased. Due to his new method of thinking‚ Socrates was able to inspire people to think for themselves and it was ok to question things. This mindset later caused a huge effect in his life‚ from how he interacted with his wife‚ to how bystanders thought of him‚ and even cost him his own life. Socrates had lived through the Golden Age of Athens‚ this great era was the birth of many great philosophers. Often crowds would
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In Hobbes Leviathan‚ one might recognize the complete controversy between he‚ and Socrates. Socrates‚ was a man with little answers; he made you question things you did not know‚ and things you thought you knew. However‚ Hobbes‚ gives you immense immediate answers‚ and even claims that philosophers are wrong (page 57). Hobbes also claims that men has “restless desire of power after power” (page 58); he claims this explains how and why people act in a certain manner. Reflecting on our modern society
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Socrates: Meno At the beginning of Meno the question of what virtue is and whether or not it can be taught is brought up. The question of whether knowledge is virtue or virtue is knowledge is also brought up in the text. There are many different interpretations of Meno and all the things discussed within it. I am sure that there are many views and ideas as to where knowledge comes from‚ the true source of knowledge. Now nobody really knows where knowledge comes from‚ but Socrates
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