In 399 BCE‚ Socrates was put on trial and convicted to death for “impiety and corrupting the youth of the city” (Apology‚ p. 202). He asked many questions of people‚ making them look unintelligent and the upper-class youth followed suit. Instead of accepting his fate‚ he killed himself‚ denying his opposition the pleasure of doing so themselves. Confucius was a philosopher in China many years after the death of Socrates in Greece. His philosophy was based on natural order‚ specifically children minding
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required parts. The move to democracy introduced two new parts‚ the unnecessary and the lawless appetites. V To explain imitation in Bk. X Socrates returns to furniture (596b). He distinguishes the form of the bed from the physical bed from the imitative artistic representation of a bed. The imitative arts are at third remove from the truth. In Bk. X Socrates invokes PO explicitly‚ when he discusses the banishment of the imitative arts. The imitative arts employ appearance‚ which confuses a spectator
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absolute ruin of self that one faces through Socrates words. Straight from his introduction with‚ “Good evening‚ gentleman. I’m plastered‚” (Symposium 213 A) it appears‚ as this speech will be a random comedic interlude to distract from the ideas of the form that had just come about in the end of The Speech of Diotima. However‚ there is an underlying sense of tragedy and the ruin of self behind Alcibiades stories. Alcibiades is completely transformed by Socrates words‚ “If I were to describe for you what
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Socrates and Euthyphro unexpectedly run into each other outside of the Athens courthouse. Euthyphro went to the courthouse to prosecute his father for killing one of his servants‚ who was a murderer. Socrates was summoned to court to be charged with disturbing the youth. After Euthyphro stated his business at the courthouse‚ Socrates assumes that he must be a religious expert if he is willing to prosecute his own father on such a serious charge. Euthyphro then agrees with Socrates that he does indeed
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This essay will contend that the source of Socrates’ suspicion of democracy derives from the process by which the dissemination of knowledge or the lack of knowledge to the public is conducted. Secondly‚ it will evaluate one strength and weakness in Socrates’ method at arriving at truth and therefore the best way to govern. The source of Socrates’ suspicion of democracy stems from the argument that by virtue of the law being established through majority rule the best orators can persuade the majority
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Socrates pursues wisdom in many ways. I would specifically like to elaborate on his search for someone wiser than him in Athens‚ as my example. Socrates questions Politicians first in his pursuit. He wanted to see if these people were wiser than him‚ which is why he questions these people In the first place Socrates questions a politician‚ however he comes up short. He understood that these politicians did not know much of anything; “he thinks he knows something when he does not‚ whereas when I
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Republic‚ Socrates outlines that this problem is not new and can be accurately shown in what he calls The Allegory of the Cave. The cave is a metaphorical situation whereby there are fictional prisoners in a fictional cave who only know the reality that is shown to them. According to Socrates‚ the prisoners are an example of people who do not live the life of philosopher and have never searched for universal truths. In other words‚ basically everybody. In order for them to escape the cave‚ Socrates says
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Axia College Material Appendix C Socrates‚ Plato‚ and Aristotle Matrix Fill in the matrix below‚ denoting each philosopher’s view concerning the topics listed. Write NA if there is no record in the textbook of the philosopher’s view on the specific topic. Then‚ using the information you inserted into the matrix as a guide‚ write a 350-700 word response describing how Socrates’‚ Plato’s‚ and Aristotle’s philosophies relate to each other. |
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Socrates made his defenses against accuses in the dialogue of Apology. In his own way‚ he organizes his statements together in the first two sentences of the dialogue. He expresses his opinions through the sentences; He shows his attitudes towards to the jury men; He also introduced that he would state how the accusers affected the jury men in a negative way. Socrates introduced his first topic by his first sentence‚ “I do not know‚” . Socrates was the wisest man in ancient Greece at that time
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After reading about Socrates ideal republic‚ I no longer wonder why Socrates was executed. The way he thinks and the ideas he expresses can be somewhat outlandish. Socrates way of thinking is original and helped shape the intellectual traditions in the west. Unfortunately‚ I disagree with some of the logic he uses and the ideas he suggests. Overall‚ The way Plato writes this piece is very smart for two reasons. The first reason is that it is written as a conversation. At this time‚ verbal communication
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