Socrates is known as the lover of wisdom and the lover of beauty. His speech is a response to Agathon who comically states that love is beautiful and young‚ the opposite of Socrates. Socrates inquires is love considered to be a love of something or of nothing? He compares that to how a father is a father to his children and a brother is a brother to his siblings. Socrates expresses that love’s desire suggests that one does not own what he or she loves. Socrates further explains this by giving the
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Outnumbered‚ Always Outgunned Themes: Redemption can be found throughout the book. Socrates‚ the main character‚ has spent twenty-seven years in prison for a violent crime that he committed. The legal system punished him for his crimes‚ but they did not attempt to rehabilitate him. While in prison‚ he committed more violent crimes than he committed before his incarceration. The Capricorn bookstore is what led Socrates to redemption‚ not prison. He is definitely a reformed man. He is now perceptive
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| Atonement: Barricading the Ladder | | Daryl Deebrah ENG 4U1 Ms. C. Kivinen Due: April 27th 2012 Atonement: Daryl Deebrah April 21/2012 Class conflict is not new. Complications between the classes have occurred many times throughout history and the theme has been explored numerous times different pieces of literature by a variety of authors. However‚ in Ian McEwan’s 2001 novel‚ Atonement‚ he provides
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regarding the thesis are how he expects it to be. Marino clarifies his quotes as he adds and explains what his point of view is towards the main topic. For instance‚ “many of them…” (page 2 para ) Or the quote about his suggestion from do what you love all correlates with his clarification to making sacrifices for others. “They are accustomed to doing whatever they need to do to help out their
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I would have to agree with Socrates in this reading because he proved his arguments well. It made sense to me‚ especially with what is happening amongst our generation today. For one thing‚ just because a word says a certain thing‚ doesn’t mean it can’t have another meaning. Especially since there are so many different definitions and understanding of things‚ The same way Socrates said that even if something is being done by everyone‚ doesn’t make it alright to do it. There are still rules to
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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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A Different View of Love We have heard definitions of love through our lives that have been passed on for decades. Some of us have felt love‚ and some of us have been in love. But no one ever seems to question what love is‚ as if it is something that just plainly is. People tend to just go with it‚ and think that what they are feeling is really complete and substantial love. In Plato’s The Symposium‚ the reader is confronted with some very different views of love as brought to us by Agathon
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The Republic‚ by Plato discusses human morality and the difference between justice and injustice. Socrates is challenged by his peers to explain his views on the topic‚ which he claims that being just is the function of the soul. He is then confronted by more students who suggest that unjust humans have a better life than those who are just. To respond to this Socrates decides to create a city called Kallipollis in order to demonstrate why being just is beneficial to everyone in a society instead
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The conversation between Socrates and Euthyphro takes place at the marketplace. Euthyphro is on his way to charge his father for murder‚ and Socrates is going to his own trial‚ because he was accused of corrupting the minds of the youth. Before going into his trial‚ Socrates asks Euthyphro‚ who claims to be a spiritually enlightened prophet‚ what exactly makes something of piety or impiety. He asks this‚ because he wants to be seen as Euthyphro’s student‚ and so that he can use Euthyphro’s teachings
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insight into the educational theories of Socrates. It is rather difficult to gain any information from first hand written accounts of Socrates work as he hardly ever took down notes and the only accounts that have stood the test of time are those that were documented by Plato‚ a student of Socrates. In actual fact most of what we know is from later people such as Aristophanes‚ Xenophen‚ Plato and Aristotle. These accounts are what have been formulated into Socrates theories. This poses some questions
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