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    Socrate

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    Socrate’s attitude vs the Good Brahmin’s attitude Anonymous University of the People September 2017 Introduction For a considerable length of time philosophers have sought on numerous ideas and presently can’t seem to find more information about our reality‚ our conduct and the explanation for our reality. Philosophers have been on missions to discover the motivation behind religion‚ the idea of government‚ transcendentalism and human personality. For a considerable length of time

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    Perhaps the most famous objection to view that all ideas derive from sense experience is that this is impossible. Both Locke and Hume appear to assume that sense experience gives us discrete ideas directly. As first examples of simple ideas‚ Locke lists ‘Yellow‚ White‚ Heat‚ Cold‚ Soft‚ Hard‚ Bitter‚ Sweet’ (Essay II.I.3). He supposes that what makes all experiences of yellow experiences of yellow is objective patterns of similarity between the experiences – yellow things all look ‘the same’. For

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    Socrates

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    The most noticeable comparison between Jesus Christ and Socrates was that the charges against them. They were both seen as an “evil” influence to the townspeople because of their different ways to see life and for their beliefs on religion. Jesus was considered a heretic because he preached monotheism in a polytheistic world. He called himself the messiah‚ a divine being and the son of God and the Jews saw that as a major offence. The Roman Government did not like that Jesus questioned the oppressiveness

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    people. Socrates proves Thrasymachos otherwise by arguing that being just is virtuous‚ wise and profitable and being unjust does not make people stronger nor more powerful. Those in power or rulers make laws that are just for themselves but Thrasymachos agrees that sometimes rulers make mistakes and make laws that are unjust to them‚ therefore‚ making them just or advantageous for the people they rule. Therefore‚ unjust people would not be more powerful in this case. Additionally‚ Socrates goes on

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    Can’t Take It With You Dr. Vincenzo Philosophy 110 B February 17‚ 2016 1. The Socratic character of Grandpa Vanderhof has similar traits as to Socrates in book 1 of The Republic. In book 1 Socrates questions characters and talks to them about happiness and life. His question is “ Does he mean that justice is doing good to friends and harm to enemies”. Socrates question to Polemarchus‚ they argue about what justice is. So tying it to the movie with how Grandpa Vanderhof talks about life lessons with

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    Ezra Hochman Wednesday/Friday 12:25-2:05 Diogenes vs. Socrates: What is a life of worth? One can either write the story of their own life‚ or let other people and circumstances write it for him. Too often do citizens of the world follow the assumptions of society‚ as personal independence can seem frightening or uncomfortable. Both Socrates and Diogenes were of the mind that the purpose of human life is to constantly better one’s self by way of personal and spiritual growth. We are unable to

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    Thomas Hobbes and John Locke represent the beginning of political science in the seventeenth century‚their ideas on what government should or shouldn’t do would be refined by Thomas Jefferson and other founding fathers thus becoming the basis of the constitutional democracy of the United States. Hobbes took a very different approach than Locke in what he thought of humans in general;the same goes for political matters. He thought people were savages when born and only under someone else’s leadership

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    about government. The first philosophers name was Thomas Hobbes and he wrote the social contract. His social contract talked about giving the government total power. Whereas the other philosopher called John Locke had a different view on things. He disagreed and stated just the opposite. Locke is a little more practical with his philosophy. Hobbes believed in a monarchy over the people for more control in the city. He thought that a ruler should have total power over the people because he thought

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    Apology is a public speech; Crtio is a private speech • Socrates ○ was the first philosopher concerned with human affairs (ethics‚ morality) ○ Socrates originally devoted his time to science ○ Later abandoned science and shifted attention to ethics-philosophy ○ Never wrote anything; so how do we know anything about him? Because of: § Plato § Xenophon § Aristophanes (Clouds)- accuser ○ Plato is the mouth piece of Socrates in most cases § But not verbatim; a lie in such

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    2710 Words Justice versus Injustice: An Interpretation of Socrates Dialogues The dialogical philosophy of Socrates‚ the extensity to which Socrates used dialogues and questions in the search for truth is well explicated in Plato’s book the republic‚ a compilation of what is widely acknowledged as Socrates’ contribution in the realm of knowledge. The republic‚ which comprises of book I to book X‚ exonerates a variety of Socrates dialogues in the endeavor to address problems of philosophy related

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