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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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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Socrates was in fact wise about God in his life and death as a philosopher in the classical Athens time period. To fully show he was wise about God‚ one must investigate what wisdom and who God is‚ and use textual evidence‚ or dialogues of Socrates‚ to prove his wisdom of God. In order to show that Socrates was in fact wise about God‚ one must first define what wisdom itself is. An English word with the stem word‚ weid‚ wid meaning “to see” (Mohr‚ p. 4). It can be defined as a type of knowledge
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Was King Mackenzie Guilty or innocent for introducing conscription? King Mackenzie was part of the liberal party and he became Prime Minster of Canada in 1921 - 1926 and also in 1935 - 1948. King had won by a majority vote in the federal election and became prime minster. King as the leader the liberal party had promised that he would not introduce conscription but he had lied. A bill had passed to have conscription overseas which the citizens had voted for. King Mackenzie is the one blame for introducing
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conversation between Socrates and Euthyphro each of who attempt to argue their point of justification about why they are in court or should not be there‚ which in turn a question develops about the gods and holiness. Euthyphro has a surprise encounter beside the porch of the king responsible for overseeing religious law. Euthyphro asks Socrates why he is there. Socrates states he has being persecuted by Meletus for corrupting the youth with his ideals about predictions of the future. Socrates in turn asks
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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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unjust can take advantage of them. Those people are not self-sufficient‚ so they are in need for things that they cannot provide themselves with therefore they have to rely on others. Socrates said‚ “perhaps there would be more justice in the bigger and it would be easier to observe closely” (Book II 369 a). Socrates’ use of the city to describe justice is great because it shows a greater picture where people perform their own task well‚ interact with each other‚ strong community‚ and there is no
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relative B Culture‚ religion‚ and ethics are circumstantial and thereby changeable‚ rather than natural permanent and absolute 4) The sophists role in Athenian Democracy A The Shift to democract meant that clear speech and the power of persuation was indispensible B Sophists taught the art of rhetoric‚ the art of persuasive speech‚ not for the sake of truth‚ but for the sake of winning the argument 1 make a bad case look good 2 make an unjust case appear just 3 advance one’s special interest
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1) Socrates thinks that the person who thinks he knows nothing when he doesn’t know anything is wiser than the person who thinks he knows something when he doesn’t. But if neither person knows anything‚ how can on be wiser than the other? What kind of wisdom could Socrates be referring to here? Socrates believed that the person who thinks he knows nothing when he doesn‟t know anything is wiser than the person who thinks he knows something when he doesn‟t. If neither person knows
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Disnerys Molina Wisdom means being wise‚ intellectual‚ or all-knowing. It is associated with a certain calmness‚ and a willingness to look at all the facts and make a well-informed decision. In Oedipus the King by Sophocles and Apology by Socrates we see how wisdom isn’t in all entirety a positive thing to have. ‘’alas how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise ‘’ – Oedipus‚ in this quote we see how Oedipus feels as if he has this wonderful wisdom but doesn’t know
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