This week we read pieces about madness in the ancient world‚ and how different cultures viewed it. The first piece was a dialogue of Socrates from Plato’s Phaedrus‚ the second speech. In the dialogue Socrates is speaking to young Phaedrus about love‚ sanity‚ and madness. His main point is the idea that it is acceptable to become mad‚ and that‚ though love seems strange and silly‚ it is a divine gift that brings the spirit ever higher towards the gods after death. “Neither human wisdom nor divine
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Socrates’ discussion with Meletus stems from Meletus leading the prosecution against Socrates. Socrates is charged with “corrupting the youth and of not believing in the gods in who the city believes‚ but in other new spiritual things.” During his trial‚ Socrates is given the chance to defend himself against the accusations. Socrates argues that the charges against him are contradictory and incoherent. Socrates begins by attacking Meletus‚ using Meletus’ charge that Socrates is the only person
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SOCRATES LIFE STORY Version 1.0 ** Socrates was well known in Athens by the time he was in his forties due to his habit of engaging in philosophy conversations in public and at private gatherings. The subject of these conversations often revolved around defining things like‚ justice‚ beauty‚ courage‚ temperance‚ friendship and virtue. The search for definition focused on the true nature of the subject under question and not just on how the word is used correctly in a sentence. Socrates style of
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Plato`s Defence of Socrates: Retribution In the Defence of Socrates the citizens of Athens condemned Socrates to death. I will explain and evaluate the prophecy that was given before his death. His prophecy held that the citizens of Athens would be harmed by Socrates` death more than he will be. I will explain Socrates reasoning behind his belief that the citizens of Athens will be harmed by Socrates’ death. I will also explain how he attempts to convince them that death is not evil but instead
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socrates Socrates Essay Donna Knight Phi/ 105 July 11‚ 2012 Kirsten Gerdes Socrates Essay Socrates who was he? “Socrates was a Greek philosopher. Socrates was born c. 470/469 B.C.‚ in Athens”. (Wiki) In Phaedo‚ I understand that Socrates he has arguments that demonstrate that the soul is immortal. “If we live on after bodily death‚ there is no reason to fear it.” (Phaedo) However‚ these ideas are attributed to Socrates in Phaedo. Of course we have no way of knowing
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Socrates as the important founder and philosopher for ancient Greek. Plato and Aristophanes are his contemporary student and friend who had written pieces about Socrates‚ we can learn Socrates behavior and thinking of their writing. This paper is responding to two articles‚ Clouds by Aristophanes and Symposium by Plato which help us finding the similarity about Socrates from texts. Socrates’s personality appeared on both text as one of the important figures which included his depth of think‚ the
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Plato put to writing what Socrates’ view of the good life was throughout several of his dialogues. Much of what Socrates’ view of the necessary requirements for the good life correspond to what are necessary requirements for the good life in the modern‚ western world. However‚ the ancient Chinese philosopher‚ Chuang Tzu‚ would have various criticisms of Socrates. Yet‚ these criticisms would not so much be in the essence of the good life‚ but in the particulars. As demonstrated below‚ the essentials
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written by Plato‚ is actually an account of how the death of Socrates went about. This fictitious story written from Phaedo’s point of view is used by Plato to detail his ideas of life and death‚ but through the perspective of Socrates on his final day. By emphasizing that in fact Plato was not there when this happened‚ he makes it clear that this is his speculation and not a true story. Nevertheless‚ there is a lot to learn about Socrates’ (and Plato’s) idea of the soul from this reading. According
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The teachings of Socrates in Plato’s The Five Dialogues provide an answer to the dilemma of the portly fella. The book of Crito portrays the scene of Socrates in his jail cell awaiting execution when he’s approached by an old friend‚ Crito‚ a philosopher and nobleman with sufficient funds to help Socrates escape from his prison cell. Crito repeatedly argues with Socrates in an attempt to convince him to flee his cell. The first argument that
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In Plato’s Gorgias‚ Socrates and a fellow interlocutor‚ Callicles of Acharnae‚ fervently discuss the relationship between pleasure and good. It is in this philosophical debate that Callicles states a good life as one that consists of having as much unrestricted pleasure as possible; therefore‚ implying that the pleasant and the good are identical. However‚ Socrates contends otherwise‚ and attempts to convince Callicles of the error in his ways by proving that good is ultimately not the same as pleasure
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