Socrates was one of the greatest philosophers of all time who questioned many individuals about their beliefs on ideas and thoughts that they take for granted by feeling that they know knowledge on a particular subject but utterly find out that they obtain no knowledge or wisdom on that subject that they felt so strongly about‚ which in turn‚ ended up being embarrassing to that individual. However Socrates feels that if he did not live and examined his life would have been pointless because he would
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Alcibiades I‚ Plato dialogues an encounter between Alcibiades‚ an ambitious noble youth‚ and the Greek philosopher Socrates. Socrates‚ who recognizes Alcibiades’ quest for power‚ subjects the young man to a series of pedagogical questions in an attempt to expose his ignorance. His hope is not to embarrass or ridicule him‚ but to slowly cultivate and guide his rationale and thinking. Socrates first proclaims that Alcibiades is unfit and ill-prepared to pursue a career in politics. He states that Alcibiades
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live a just life and an unjust life. This provides us with specific details of which life is actually the better life to live. I believe that in our society today‚ the unjust life can have many consequences where as the just life does not truly have many benefits like it should. Because of this‚ I think it leads people to be more inclined to do more unjust acts more often than just‚ but only if they think they could get away with it. If a person had the opportunity to commit an unjust act and
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In the Ring of Gyges‚ Glaucon and Socrates argue over what justice really is. They talk about the classes of goods. The first class being some things are good no matter the consequences‚ such as joy (The Ring of Gyges‚ Plato). The second class would be things like health and knowledge‚ things that are desirable for their results‚ and the third class are things like a job‚ or exercise‚ things that are only good for their consequences (The Ring of Gyges‚ Plato). Glaucon places justice in the second
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04/27/2010 Civil Disobedience in an Unjust America According to the infamous essay by Henry David Thoreau‚ civil disobedience is the conscious and intentional disobeying of a law to advance a moral principle or change government policy. Throughout the essay‚ Thoreau urges the need for individuals to put their personal and social consciousness before their allegiance to their government and its range of policies. Thoreau believed that if a government is unjust‚ citizens should simply refuse to follow
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apology of Socrates is one of the top works of his disciple Plato‚ where he recounts the defense of this Greek Philosopher before the accusations of "impiety and corruption of youth‚" made by his detractors Meletus and Anitus before a Council conformed by Greek citizens. As we enter the arguments described by Plato‚ we realize that we are in front of an exceptionally superior man who asserts his thinking and seeks the truth through a logical reasoning never before recorded in history. Socrates relied
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Cameron Moon 3/11/2014 PHI 150 Socrates Paper The goal of this paper is to discern and construct the world views of Socrates through the various readings‚ lectures and videos that we have seen in class. Some of these sources include: Socrates by G. Rudebusch; excerpts from The Last Days of Socrates by Plato; and The Allegory of a Cave. Of the nine world views covered in class‚ I will delve into my interpretation of four of them as seen through the various sources that we have been exposed to
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Section 1: Socrates’ argument Socrates sits in a prison cell‚ sentenced to death. His wealthy friend Crito has come to speak with him as he waits for a ship from Delos to return and allow executions to begin. Socrates knows that he‚ “must die the day after the ship arrives (Plato‚ 44).” Socrates also knows that he is not guilty of the crimes he was convicted of‚ stating‚ “There have been many who have accused me to you for many years now‚ and none of their accusations are true (Plato 22).” It is
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concerns the issue of what happens to us after death. What Socrates is trying to sum up‚ which he has been mentioning through out the entire book‚ is that we should all live a wise‚ strenuous‚ and philosophical way of life. Socrates’ tale is for people from all walks of life‚ he only wants us to pursue a just way of life. The way it correlates to politics is that he wants people that hold a high status is politics to make sure they are just in the decisions they make for their people‚ because they
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It is acceptable and even necessary to to protest unjust and unfair laws‚ because it is morally wrong. People who were being punished inhumanely because it was the law‚ “My teammates and I saw a man strung up by his neck - and set on fire.(James)” Lynching was a legal crime against black as a form of punishment. This is not a law a country is suppose to allow‚ allow such a violent law against a certain race in a way to show superiority. No one has to right or liberty to take someone’s life for the
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