This week I started reading The Secret War by Jill Atkins. In this short novel‚ Sophie is a 14 year old girl living with her parents and older brother in Northern France in 1939 at the start of WW2. When Hitler starts making his way across Europe‚ Sophie’s friends and family start enlisting. Wanting to contribute in some way to the war effort‚ Sophie joins a resistance group and becomes a messenger. But she soon realises how serious her job is when the group begins preparations for the refugees from
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Euthyphro – Plato Kristen B M Ashford University PHI208: Ethics and Moral Reasoning Instructor Marc McGrath February 11‚ 2013 Euthyphro – Plato The Euthyphro is a tale of Socrates and Euthyphro. They meet by chance and end up discussing what is holy and what is piety. Socrates tries to get answers from Euthyphro but because of his unwillingness to learn‚ they end back at the beginning of their discussion. In Euthyphro‚ we see the three distinct definitions of piety and holiness that
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Theaetetus is a dialogue written by Plato that concerns the nature of knowledge and what knowledge is. In this work‚ Socrates and Theaetetus discuss knowledge and its definition‚ which the character of Theaetetus tries to put into. He says that knowledge is perception‚ knowledge is true judgment‚ and‚ finally‚ knowledge is true judgment with an account. Socrates finds each of these undesirable and tells Theaetetus that he benefits from discovering what he doesn’t know and that he should approach
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Socrates‚ the father of philosophy‚ and teacher: Is he corrupt? Did this man‚ who still teaches students thousands of years after his life ended‚ earn capital punishment? Was it fair to receive such severe punishment for teaching the youth to ask questions? Was an innocent person murdered? Despite it being the unpopular answer to the question‚ Socrates did deserve his penalty‚ but only through the perspective of the Athenians. The reasons are simple: Socrates really seemed to have committed the crime
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Georgia Logan 10/30/05 1st period Dr. T Sophie’s World By Jostein Gaarder WHAT? What is the plot? Sophie starts a philosophy class taught to her by Albert Knox. He sends her packages by his dog named Hermes which are relevant to her interest in philosophy. Sophie feels that philosophy is vital information to learn and that it should be questioned. Conflict? One day Sophie receives a Happy Birthday postcard for a young lady named Hilde Moller Knag from her father‚ Albert Knag
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To say that a man is defined by what he does in his life is an understatement when you think of two of the greatest philosophers ever. Each man was very respected while they were living but when you have hundreds or thousands of people still talking about you after your death there is something very special to say about that. Socrates and Rene Descartes spent their life looking for the truth. They looked for the perfect answer to every question because both of them wanted the answers no one could
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In Hobbes Leviathan‚ one might recognize the complete controversy between he‚ and Socrates. Socrates‚ was a man with little answers; he made you question things you did not know‚ and things you thought you knew. However‚ Hobbes‚ gives you immense immediate answers‚ and even claims that philosophers are wrong (page 57). Hobbes also claims that men has “restless desire of power after power” (page 58); he claims this explains how and why people act in a certain manner. Reflecting on our modern society
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1: In classical Greek civilization‚ people interacted with the environment. People used the Mediterranean basin in many different ways. One reason was for irrigation‚ which produced fertile soil throughout the land and made agriculture great in this society. Some of the plants they grew were olives and grapes. These were soon turned into olive oil and wine‚ which was a very popular item to trade. This basin was also used as a travel route‚ which did spread cultures around the areas. 2: In classical
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I believe that after thinking hard about the arguments I could say that Socrates has won. When I say the word “won” I use it loosely because in all reality it was hard for me to agree with Thrasymachus. As hard as it was it to agree with the one it was also hard to agree with Socrates because he really doesn’t give the strongest arguments against Thrasymachus claim. He also never really gives his opinion or definition on what he thinks justice is. The first reason why I would say Socrates won is
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Phaedrus and Gorgias Response Paper Looking at both Plato’s Gorgias and Plato’s Phaedrus‚ the differences are easily noticed in comparison to one another. Gorgias was a text coming from Plato when he was a younger man‚ and not as experienced‚ living in a city of war‚ these elements add a hint of aggressiveness to the reading. Whereas Phaedrus was written when Plato was an older man‚ and the city was in a time of peace‚ and the setting had taken place in the wilderness‚ these facets gave the text
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