Had Socrates the right to flee‚ or‚ hat Socrates the duty to die? Socrates faced a life ending death penalty‚ although having a well prepared opportunity to escape; nevertheless‚ he decided to die. Is this cruel decision to justify? In Socrates’ eyes one has as a mature citizen a contract with the state where one lives. This contract contains duties for both sides. The state has to take care for his citizen whereas the citizen has not only to obey and protect the rules that the state determines
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Confucius and Socrates both have a very definite perspective of an person and how he/she should live their life. However these perspectives do differ in specific areas and that is what brings me to compare and contrast on both philosophers. "He acts before he speaks‚ and afterwards speaks according to his actions" (Confucius 2-13). Confucius says that we shouldn’t speak about what we don’t know‚ just as Socrates is known for saying "I am wise because I know nothing." Both of them seem to imply
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Professor Eve Walden SLS1122 22 January 2013 Goals Paper Every person‚ no matter their race‚ gender‚ or language that they speak‚ have huge goals that they want to accomplish in life. We spend our lives either receiving a college degree or performing on world tours in the pursuit of happiness and success. In the end‚ it’s not all about the long term goals but the steps to get me there. My long term goals are to travel‚ graduate with a master’s degree in Business‚ and make partner at a prestigious
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Technology Nagtahan‚ Sampaloc Manila INTRODUCTION: The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) are the worlds time bound and quantifiedtargets to eradicate extreme property in its moneyte extreme property in its money aspects – income poverty‚ hunger‚ disease‚ lack of adequate shelter. And Conclusion- While promoting the gender quality‚ education and environmental sustainability. The MDGs are eight goals to be achieved half way to year 2015 that responds to the main development challenges
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worshiping the gods of the city was once sentenced to death‚ not because he actually did those things which he was accused of‚ but because 501 citizens of Athens acting as jury for his trial had been convinced he deserved death. This philosopher‚ Socrates‚ considered to be the wisest man of his time‚ was humble and knew that his purpose as a philosopher was to express‚ share‚ and not compromise the truth. Recorded in the ancient works of Plato‚ he expressed through Socrates’s example that the wisdom
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In the story of Crito‚ Socrates is in a prison cell and is waiting to be executed. His wealthy friend Crito is trying to convince him to escape because he believes Socrates is innocent and is being wrongly accused of impiety and corruption of the young. Socrates refuses to run away‚ although Crito offers to care for him. He instead chooses to face the city because the city needs philosophy. His submission to the unjust conviction‚ emphasizes this relationship between the philosopher and the city
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When you say goals some people may think about field goals or soccer goals. When I think of goals I think of my plans that I have for the future. Setting goals for your self can ultimately can be what determines your success when you get older. Lets say that you have set a goal to be the first person in school history to have a thousand points in basketball. That is a great goal to have but if you don’t have a plan of action‚ then the chances of it happening are decreasing every game that you play
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One could argue that Socrates examined life‚ and yet what does that mean? From my understanding of the Apology‚ Socrates did not just live the life of the ordinary Greek he questioned life. What did he mean by “the unexamined life is not worth living?” I believe he meant that we must question everything around us. That the answer “things have always been this way” wasn’t a good enough answer. If we look at Sparta‚ they lived their lives as dictated by the government. There was no “I” in Sparta‚ Sparta
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According to Socrates‚ an unjust person is an unhappy person. Why do you believe Socrates made this analogy? How does one become a balanced individual? Furthermore‚ Plato also has an opinion of what a well-balanced person is. Show how Plato’s understanding of a well-balanced person is necessary to a society in harmony with itself‚ and how that ties in with Socrates’ preceding analogy. Socrates believed a unjust person could not be happy that only the just person could be happy. The unjust person
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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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