Socrates and Euthyphro unexpectedly run into each other outside of the Athens courthouse. Euthyphro went to the courthouse to prosecute his father for killing one of his servants‚ who was a murderer. Socrates was summoned to court to be charged with disturbing the youth. After Euthyphro stated his business at the courthouse‚ Socrates assumes that he must be a religious expert if he is willing to prosecute his own father on such a serious charge. Euthyphro then agrees with Socrates that he does indeed
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an essay on the following topic: "Discuss cultural differences as they exist in American and Vietnamese culture and suggest some ways to overcome them." CONTENT The difference of culture impacts so much to the way to living‚ the way of thinking and the way of doing business. America and Vietnam have a big difference in culture‚ religion and business. However‚ we live in a world where it is called flat world‚ where there is no restriction between countries. It requires us to integrate in order to
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Socrates beforehand disproving Gorgias and Polus in The Gorgias‚ now takes on a rival who he deems qualified enough: Callicles. Here‚ they discuss the value of temperance and the indulgence of pleasures. Callicles remarks to Socrates‚ “In the rightly-developed man the passions ought not to be controlled‚ but that we should let them grow to the upmost and somehow or other satisfy them‚ and that that is virtue” (Plato 74). Callicles says that to allow growth and indulge in your desires is real virtue
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was the incorporation of the two particles men and de. These were created with the intention to indirectly designate opposites in writing‚ allowing the two contrasting ideas to achieve an equilibrium‚ uncovering the truth somewhere in the middle. At the end of the first year of the Peloponnesian War‚ Pericles delivers an oration speech in which he explains what he believes the nature of Athens to be. In the following years‚ Thucydides gives a report of the Plague of 430‚ regarding the state of Athens
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And the definition of joining these two words according to Green was: “to discover the true ground or justification for obedience to law”. Sophocles lifted this problem in his Antigone play‚ performed around 440 BCE‚ and Plato’s Crito recounts Socrates’ philosophical response to the
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Athens clearly knew and recognized that they lived in a democracy‚ Pericles goes out of his way to remind them of this as a means of praising and extolling the uniqueness of Athens and its system of government. It also supports the argument that Athens has a way of life that is superior to other poli within Greece‚ and its people must therefore fight for it and the values it upholds as a democracy. In fact‚ one way of looking at Pericles’ ancestor reference in the previous section could be as build up
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Although The Funeral Oration of Pericles was written around 431 B.C.E. in Athens‚ Greece and Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address was written in 2013 in the United States of America‚ they address many similar topics. A few of these topics consist of civic duty‚ world leadership and dedication. These similar topics can be seen many times throughout the two speeches even though the speeches were made for different reasons. Pericles’s speech eulogized the Athenian soldiers who died in the war against
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Oration on the Dignity of Man Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) was a philosopher of the Renaissance‚ his " Oration on the Dignity of Man " is known as the "declaration of humanism. In his speech‚ Mirandola declare that people is the essence of the universe; destiny is in our own hands and is not subject to any external things.Rrationality‚ free will and noble quality‚ not only can transcend everything but also enter the realm of god. Like other humanists‚ Mirandola did not deny the existence of
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expulsion of the Alcmaeonidae family including Pericles and the retraction of the Megarian Decree‚ threatening war if the demands were not met. The obvious purpose of these proposals was the instigation of a confrontation between Pericles and the people; this event‚ indeed‚ would come about a few years later. At that time‚ the Athenians unhesitatingly followed Pericles’ instructions. In the first legendary oration Thucydides puts in his mouth‚ Pericles advised the Athenians not to yield to their opponents’
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philosopher’s goal is to discover the best possible way man can rule successfully. At the same time‚ the Christian Political Philosopher’s goal is to make the political life for every citizen the best capable. Christianity emphasizes and overlaps ideas needed for a successful regime already reasoned by Aristotle and Plato. St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas study the ancient philosophers’ reasoning and conclude that Christianity significantly differs from political philosopher by acknowledging
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