Plato's understanding of knowledge is justified true belief. After rejecting 2 accounts of knowledge (knowledge as perception & knowledge as true belief) , defined as KNOWLEDGE IS SOMETHING SIMILAR TO JUSTIFIED TRUE BELIEF. (PG. 20)…
In reading Plato’s Theaetetus, Socrates stresses throughout that he is like a midwife, meaning he helps his associates to gain knowledge through asking questions. He also claims, however, that he himself possesses no knowledge. As a result, he does not teach, but remains adamant in his claims that he is very important in the associates’ learning or relearning.…
In the writing called Euthyphro by Plato, Socrates is being charged with corrupting the youth and not believing in all of the Gods. He is being accused of this by a man named Meletus who feels as though he is guilty of not believing in the Gods of the states. Not only does he not believe in the Gods but he is accused of making up new ones. The crimes that he is being charged with go hand in hand with each other but he maintains his innocence because he feels he isn’t guilty. While on the other hand Euthyphro is prosecuting his father and indicting him for murder. Morally Euthyphro feels as though it’s the right thing to do and his family doesn’t agree only because it’s his father. In this essay I will summarize the dialogue and its message relating to piety/holiness.…
Plato wrote peices on justice that impacted Ancient Greece, something else he wrote was a peice on the philosophy of language.…
He also indicates that people who are located in the belief have beliefs but they barely have any knowledge of the things that they believe in. According to Socrates, people in the stage of thought starts to use their knowledge of reasoning. Lastly, people in the understanding level uses their knowledge to figure about the good. Therefore, in Republic, Socrates discuss about knowledge in regard to the hierarchy of cognitive faculties which describes the progress of knowledge in our souls.…
First of all, Meno demonstrates Socrates's effort to guide his interlocutor to achieve thorough understanding of virtue and what his interlocutor actually received. Socrates's questioner is Meno, who is a young man trying to engage in unethical military and political affairs. Very well absorbed in his aristocratic origin, Meno also has a fierce pride in the ideas on virtue that he acquired from Gorgias, a sophist who focuses on the teaching of rhetoric and the external representation of knowledge. Meno started the conversation with a burning question: "Can you tell me, Socrates, can virtue be taught?" (Meno, 70a)…
In this essay I will be working with the concepts of knowledge and true belief. I will show how they differ in two different Plato texts. I will first work to show what the concepts are and how they are different. I will then work to provide the necessary background information for each text, and separately explain how these concepts are treated in the two different texts. Next after having explained the concepts use in the text I will highlight the differences in the two accounts. Finally I will work to show that while the two accounts do differ the differences can be reconciled, so Plato is really saying the same thing in both texts.…
Platonic literatures seem to hold many ideologies in common that are often briefly discussed throughout his writings. Plato, being the pupil of Socrates, felt his ideas were important and documented them in both the Meno and The Republic. In doing so, we now have some of the most influential ideas of Socrates to study. Although the Meno and The Republic are two unequivocal different literary works from Plato, they bear superficial similarities in the dissecting of Epistemology and the sacredness of one’s knowledge while differing in the utilization of the soul as a knowledge-bearing fruit or just as another tool used to aid in learning, or rather the origination of knowledge in itself. Epistemology is a stem of philosophy in which…
Is it sin to follow fate or is it sin to go against it? In the play, “Oedipus Rex” by Sophocles, Oedipus is the king of Thebes who tries to lift the curse of Thebes. To lift the curse, he must rid of the murderer of Laios, the previous king of Thebes. However, a prophecy bounded Oedipus to an unfortunate event: he would murder Laios, his father. Oedipus followed his fate unknowingly and was blamed for his crime. He isn’t guilty of his unspeakable sins.…
What Socrates is saying may relate or connect to our lives in the sense that politics for example does not give…
As the world becomes more immersed in advanced technology and more discoveries are made, we assume we know everything. If Socrates were here today he would repeat what he said to Athenians 2,400 years ago, that we know nothing. After Socrates encountered the Oracle of Delphi, which told him he was the wisest man in Athens, he went on a journey to try to disprove the oracle. He did this by asking politicians, poets and craftsmen questions. He knew that he didn’t know everything and along the way, he realized that the public didn’t know more than he did, just that they thought they did. He concluded that he knew nothing and because he acknowledged this, he was the wisest man in Athens. (The Apology of Socrates, 32-35).…
Before I started reading Plato's the Republic, I was loathe to admit that reading those philosophy books were gonna really change how I view myself. It was totally a waste of time to read these vague and complicated books. As I went on reading the republic, I saw many similar things that still existed in our society. In the book, Plato prescribes severe dictates concerning the cultural life of the city. He rules out all poverty, with the exception of hymns to the gods and eulogies for the famous, and places restraints on painting and architecture. Does this look like "Cultural Revolution" that happened in China in late 60s in twentieth century? There are differences though, which is how the leaders see the results of the destruction of human civilization. Plato expresses regret at these aesthetic sacrifices, he feels they must be made for the sake of education, which transforms the unhealthy luxurious city into a pure and just city. However, our great leader didn't see any ruinous effects on our society until he reached the end of his life.…
1 Towards the beginning of this passage, Socrates gets Laches to agree to a new definition of courage. What is it? (5 marks)…
Socrates is the philosopher that created the dialectic method, which is figuring out what the main thing of knowledge is. Not only that but the honesty, righteousness, and the attribute of a good character; another form of discovery. The dialectic method was intended to figure out what is knowledge, why it is so important, and the accurate definition of it. Knowledge is known for being a strong belief, if that's the case then a cat should typically know that it is a cat. Knowledge is actually a true belief, not a strong one as many people would say. Some people may assume that knowledge is just a lucky guess. What if the first day of college the professor asked a student to guess another student's name and the assumption the student made was…
According to Kerferd, at the foundation of sophistic though is the statement, made by its founder Protagoras, that “Man is the measure of all…