claimed to be friends to Socrates are all useless! How could you have been so cowardly‚ or lazy‚ or stingy‚ as to allow you ’friend’ to die? Surely‚ with a little courage‚ energy‚ and money‚ you could have saved him."<br><br>Those are strong accusations coming from someone who obviously did not know Socrates as well as his other students or me. Although‚ I expected that people would react this way to my actions‚ or lack of actions‚ regarding Socrates death.<br><br>For Socrates‚ being executed was the
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Plato and Aristotle on Religion Plato and Aristotle are two of the most famous philosophers known to mankind. Plato was a classical Greek philosopher‚ who was mentored by Socratesand mentored Aristotle. Plato’s views were extremely influenced by his mentor‚ Socrates and was also influenced by what he believed was his mentor’s unjust death. Aristotle was also a Greek philosopher. He was mentored by Plato‚ and mentored Alexander the Great. Even though he was mentored by Plato‚ they do
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Socrates and the Anti-Democracy The trial‚ determination of guilt‚ and eventual death of Socrates‚ one of the paramount philosophers in history‚ on the charge of “corrupting the young and of not believing in the gods in whom the city believes” (Plato 24c) in Athens‚ perhaps the most famous freedom-loving‚ democratic city-state of the Western world‚ is puzzling. In his earlier days‚ Socrates was once seen as an eccentric headmaster of a school of thinking‚ a harmless character wandering the streets
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to find out if there is a God and who he is. According to Aquinas we will never be able to understand who or what God is. We are finite and so we cannot understand the infinity of God. We can only know He is and always will be because He has instilled that bit of knowledge within us. So when Descartes says we cannot have the idea of finite without the idea of infinite‚ he claims we understand what God is. But I would disagree and take Aquinas’ side because what Descartes is understanding is not who
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Speaking through Socrates and Meno‚ Plato attempts to confront the perplexing concepts behind what it is to have knowledge. Is there a difference between knowing something and having a correct opinion or true belief of that thing? Perhaps if our correct opinion or true belief leads us to the same accurate conclusion as one who has knowledge‚ then we are indeed knowledgable? Socrates establishes that in order to have knowledge‚ our true belief or opinion must be justified and although
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Socrates‚ the philosopher credited with forming the very bedrock of Western thought; whose very name is synonymous with the classical period in Greek philosophy surprisingly never actually wrote a single word. His works continue to live on in his teachings alone. He founded no school‚ taught in no classroom and accepted no fee‚ however his pursuit of truth‚ his intellectual methods and most importantly his incessant questions have survived the ages in the minds‚ and on the lips of his students. In
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Apology by Plato tells a story of Socrates‚ who was being accused of teaching others for a fee‚ corrupting the young and not believing in the gods. He asks the court to allow him to defend himself in his normal speaking manner because he had never been in a courtroom. Socrates starts by denying the charges against him. He claims that he has never asked for money from other people. He argued that young rich people with nothing to do would follow him and imitate his interviews of well-known wise people
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What did Socrates Stand for? 1. What are the needs of the political community? What must all political communities do to insure their survival? What about Philosophy? What does philosophy seek? How does it go about this process? Before we get into what are the needs of a political community‚ lets define politics. What comes to your mind when you think of politics? For the purpose of this class‚ politics is the identification‚ maintenance‚ and transfer of the communities’ core values that are
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In Plato ’s "The Allegory of the Cave‚" Socrates tells an allegory of the hardship of understanding reality. Using metaphors Socrates compares a prisoner in an underground cave who is exploring a new strange world he never knew of to people who are trying to find a position of knowledge in reality. Through it‚ Plato attempts to map a man ’s journey through education and describes what is needed to achieve a perfect society. According to Socrates‚ most people tend to rely on their senses excessively
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Socrates was a classical Greek philosopher who is accredited as the main source of establishing the fundamentals of modern Western philosophy and logic. He is notably known for creating the Socratic method‚ Socratic irony and contributing to the field of ethics. Socrates was ahead of his time as he established an ethical system based on logos‚ human reason‚ rather than mythos‚ theological doctrine. This change from fables claiming divine warrant‚ to the pursuit of knowledge of central concepts and
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