In Plato’s “Meno‚” Meno is questioning Socrates about the definition of virtue‚ and what it means to be virtuous. Meno‚ however‚ has constructed his own‚ and somewhat materialistic idea about virtue‚ thinking that the definition revolves around wealth‚ gold‚ and other items that represent someone of high rank. Throughout the story‚ Socrates provides Meno with a multitude of questions and examples‚ but never directly states what virtue is. For instance‚ Socrates proved to Meno that knowledge and learning
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motivation that is insensitive to evaluative judgments. Socrates denied the possibility of any type of weakness because he has maintained that virtue does amount to a certain form of knowledge. A person having any kind of knowledge of good entails desiring good—so a person can fail to desire and do the better act only out of ignorance or any type of illusion. But Watson agrees more with Plato in this area‚ he objects to this and Socrates’ account of courage in
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trial and also honored the philosopher as Socrates for the demagogue he use for educating people. In my opinion‚the problem of educating the youth with the moral norms of the traditional sound of cow takes place in comedy "The Clouds"‚ one of the most beautiful works of Aristophanes. In the beginning of the comedy we know with Strepsiad farmer‚ destroyed economic and the son of poorly educated by his mother‚ who goes to "mendimotoren" philosopher Socrates to learn the art of lying. The Pheidippides
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Perhaps‚ though‚ that was not the intent. Plato uses the dialogue between Euthyphro and Socrates to convey to his audiences that holiness cannot be defined in just one way. Instead‚ it is a quality that changes from person to person. He uses inductive reasoning through rhetorical questions and blatant logic; and even seems to use Euthyphro as a tool to leave the conversation open ended and show this. Socrates spends a great deal of time trying to make Euthyphro
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Sabrina Professor Costanzo PHI 1000C April 29‚ 2010 The Immortality of the Soul Plato has roused many readers with the work of a great philosopher by the name of Socrates. Through Plato‚ Socrates lived on generations after his time. A topic of Socrates that many will continue to discuss is the idea of “an immortal soul”. Although there are various works and dialogues about this topic it is found to be best explained in The Phaedo. It is fair to say that the mind may wonder when
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we learn of the infamous philosopher Socrates being held as a criminal for his teachings in the Ancient Greek world. His wealthy friend‚ Crito‚ the one that the passage is named off of‚ tries to tell Socrates that his fate isn’t as close as it seems‚ explaining that an sufficient amount of money could lead to his freedom. Crito tries to save his life by bribing the city of Athens to free him of jail and thus ending the trial that would’ve ended his life. Socrates declines his proposal‚ basing that
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Plato ’s Philosophy in Apology Plato was known to be one of Socrates ’ students‚ and knew him for over 40 years. Although Plato ’s version of Apology is popularly believed to be (the most accurate) historical recount of what happened in 399 B.C on the day of Socrates ’ trial‚ historians cannot be sure the validity of everything he wrote. It can be argued that it is actually a philosophical work‚ remarking on the teachings of Socrates and his beliefs‚ which he stood by even until his death. Plato
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Cited: Plato‚ and Benjamin Jowett. The Trial and Death of Socrates: Four Dialogues. New York: Dover Publications‚ 1992. Print. Plato‚ H. D. P. Lee‚ and M. S. Lane. The Republic. London: Penguin‚ 2007. Print.
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The philosophical point made in Socrates’ speech in Plato’s Symposium is that Love is mainly a property shared between things; that Love itself is not beautiful‚ good‚ or anything else other than relation between those who desire and the things that they perceive to be good and beautiful. In my opinion however‚ the more important thing that the speech‚ which is really more of a cross-examination does‚ is take Agathon’s claim to know all there is to know about Love and lead him to admit that he doesn’t
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Euthyphro‚ Socrates questions the definition of what is holy and pious. Euthyphro provides different definition of what pious and holy mean to him. And with each definition or answer Socrates creates a question causing Euthyphro to think and question his definition. With each question Euthyphro must explain and further divulge his definition but again Socrates questions his definitions. And with his last definition he has still not given Socrates a clear definition of piety or holiness is. Socrates debates
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