to be answered in our final paper asks whether we agree with what the Laws say about if Socrates was to escape and why we feel that way. It also asks how we think Martin Luther King would have responded to the judgment of the Laws of Athens. In this paper‚ I will address these questions as well as do a quick overview of each article. In "Crito‚" Plato uses Socrates as a tool to argue the point. Socrates is in jail for "preaching false gods" and "corrupting the youth" by causing them to doubt
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they practice it. To learn about the Socratic Method‚ we should first learn about Socrates‚ the one who invented this method. Socrates was one of the most important philosophers‚ and by that‚ one of the most difficult to understand. Most of his life and teachings were adapted into the later ages and cultures. However‚ Socrates didn’t write anything. We know most of his philosophies from his disciple‚ Plato. Socrates was born in 469 BCE. His father was a sculptor and his mother was a midwife. He later
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well known throughout the world. He lived from 427 B.C.E. to 347 B.C.E. He’s famously known for being Socrates’ student and the teacher of Aristotle. He has many writings that explored justice‚ beauty‚ and equality as well as containing discussions in aesthetics‚ political philosophy‚ theology‚ cosmology‚ epistemology‚ and the philosophy of language. His writings were highly influenced by Socrates as he would convey and expand on the ideas and techniques of his teacher. Plato founded the Academy which
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years‚ an account of the last hours of Socrates is narrated to Echecrates and other interested persons by Phaedo‚ a beloved disciple of the great teacher. The narration takes place at Phlius‚ a town of Sicyon. The dialog takes the form of a narrative because Socrates is described acting as well as speaking‚ and the particulars of the event are interesting to distant friends as well as to the narrator himself. Phaedo is asked if he had been present with Socrates on the day that he drank the poison.
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The argument that Meno implies is that the use of inquiry is impossible. As a counterclaim‚ Socrates proposes the “Theory of Recollection‚” in which he states that learning is instead recollecting knowledge already within us and questions a slave boy to demonstrate his theory. Meno’s paradox begins with the premise of how a person cannot search for something that he does not know of. If something is unknown then how would one possibly know to find it? The territory of information that is unknown
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narrated by Socrates‚ in which he describes prisoners in a cave looking at shadows which they perceive to be reality. One prisoner escapes the cave and can now see the true form of reality rather than the mere shadows seen by the prisoners. I believe that the Cave is about Plato’s desire for change in Athenian political structure It metaphorically relates to the death of Socrates: The idea of returning to the cave to enlighten the other prisoners is what Plato believed Socrates was doing in
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a sophist who focuses on the teaching of rhetoric and the external representation of knowledge. Meno started the conversation with a burning question: "Can you tell me‚ Socrates‚ can virtue be taught?" (Meno‚ 70a) This question suggests his fixed focus and is the primary thing that he cares about in the conversation with Socrates. To Meno’s
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laws. In my discussion on their purpose I will be explaining the relevant sections of the dialogue before explaining the purpose of the law’s arguments in these sections. The Effect of the Laws on the Escape of Socrates In his attempt to convince Crito that he should not escape Socrates uses the Speech of Laws. He describes the laws as sentient beings capable of reason. This fulfils a number of purposes in itself. He speaks of the laws as if they were in the position of his parents. The order imposed
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Euthyphro’s second definition of piety is what is pleasing to the gods. Socrates agrees with this definition because it is expressed in a general form‚ but criticizes because the gods disagree among themselves as to what is right. This would mean that a particular action‚ disputed by the gods‚ would be both pious and impious at the same time and this is a logically impossible situation. Euthyphro tries to argue against Socrates’ criticism by pointing out that not even the gods would disagree amongst
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In Plato’s Apology‚ Socrates states that‚ “The unexamined life is not worth living” (38a). I am using the knowledge learned through hours of class discussion of Socrates from the Euthyphro‚ Apology‚ and Crito to explain what Socrates means by “the examined life‚” and why he thinks that it is the only life worth living‚ and why he thinks that it can be lived only with others‚ in Athens. In doing so‚ I have found that the truth sought by Socrates is much more about the journey that one takes while
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