Bring Back the Death Penalty! The death penalty has been used throughout history; it has evolved from being stoned to death‚ to being hanged and finally being injected with 3 substances that will kill the victim without pain. Many ideas have developed over the years on how to take a criminal’s life and the lethal injection seems to be the most humane method but the fact that the death penalty has been abolished altogether in Britain is in my opinion appalling. Criminals all over the UK are committing
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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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difference between a. and a. Both Socrates and Glaucon ultimately agree that it is better to be actually just and seemingly unjust than it is to be actually unjust but seemingly just. Their reasons for holding this position are because people just have control over themselves. They are able to maintain dominion over their desires‚ to avoid self indulgence in evil desires‚ and to choose good things. This is something the unjust person loses no matter how just he may seem. Socrates uses the image of a beast
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Is man condemned to be free? According to Satre‚ man is not free to be free; he is condemned to be free. By this he meant that people are put on Earth without their consent and from then on they are completely responsible for their actions. According to Satre‚ God is‚ essentially‚ dead and none of his prophecies‚ commandments or morals limit our actions. Satre served for the French army during the Second World War and witnesses the atrocities of the holocaust firsthand. This experience‚ along with
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“Man Is Condemned to be Free” Jean-Paul Sartre‚ a French existentialist philosopher‚ was one of the leading figures in 20th century French philosophy. In both of his major philosophical works‚ “Being and Nothingness” and his famous talk‚ “Existentialism is a Humanism”‚ he emphasized the statement “Man is Condemned to be Free”. Before I agree or disagree to the statement‚ let us first answer this question: what condemns man to be free? According to Sartre‚ we are condemned to be free because
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Socrates has valid reasons to not fear death. He says‚ "Whether life or death is better is known to God‚ and God only" (CPQ 28). Since God has not told Socrates which is better‚ he decides that what the Athenians believe will suffice. When Crito suggests that Socrates escape and avoid death‚ Socrates asks Crito if the Athenians hold to living well‚ honourably and justly. Crito replies that they do and Socrates explains it is not just for him to escape prison and he must carry out his just agreements
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Themes‚ Ideas & Arguments Piety Piety is the central topic of discourse in Euthyphro. Socrates and Euthyphro spend most of this dialogue debating back and forth‚ attempting to define what might be common to all holy acts. Despite this unified focus of their conversation‚ however‚ the two men remain unable to formulate any clear‚ uncontroversial definition of piety. Euthyphro makes several attempts‚ defining piety as prosecution of civil offenders‚ as that which is dear to the gods‚ as that which
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Plato’s “The Death of Socrates”‚ a piece detailing Socrates’ death and his followers’ reactions to his passing‚ has been reflected on throughout history and is still relevant in its emotions and messages about death. Throughout the piece itself‚ many of his followers are upset over Socrates’s impending death‚ and yet‚ Socrates is not upset‚ and is actually scolding the others about their feelings and reactions. Socrates understands that his followers are not taking his sentence to death well‚ shown
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To Socrates the connection of the good life and death are very important‚ and he talks about what a good life is in The Apology. So‚ what is a good life according to Socrates? And what is a good life’s relation to death? What do these two very opposing ideas have to do with each other? Well they have a lot more to do with each other than one would immediately think. First in order to understand the connection between these two antithetical concepts we have to understand what exactly Socrates means
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importance of living with a cause. Socrates was a man who strictly lived his life with a purpose‚ and according to Plato’s Apology‚ died for the right to practice philosophy. What perhaps is most interesting about Socrates’s view is his outlook on death. Death‚ to many‚ is a frightful end; something to be avoided for as long as one possibly can. Socrates disagrees‚ as seen most clearly in his very last speech prior to the conviction of his death. But was this acceptance of death with open arms Socrates’s
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