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Socrates Metamorphosis As To Socrates
Austin Clark
Essay #1 Plato, The Republic/ You 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 other characters in the film. His granddaughter states on his point a couple times during the movie about how people should hear his point on different things. That is just one way that you can find
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