Socratic Problem The Socratic problem results from the inability to determine what‚ in the writings of Plato‚ is an accurate portrayal of Socrates’ thought and what is the thought of Plato with Socrates as a literary device. Socrates‚ often credited with founding western philosophy and who was put to death by the democracy of Athens in May‚ 399 BC‚ was Plato’s teacher and mentor; Plato‚ like some of his contemporaries‚ wrote dialogues about his departed teacher. Most of what we know about Socrates comes
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ancient Greek societies had a strong corrective method to maintain order. Authorities had to maintain a self-survival attitude‚ which consisted of putting away those few that could challenge their power and create chaos. Both Antigone of Sophocles and Socrates of Plato are examples of threat to the socio-political order or their respective societies. Antigone is a woman in the context of fifth-century Athens‚ Greece who challenges the socio-political orders of the city in name of a blood relationship
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Socrates’ argument for Meletus‚ Anytus and Lycon. Meletus Youth Meletus‚ let me ask a question of you. Do you think a great deal of improvement of the youth? Tell me then‚ who is their improver; as you have taken the pains to discover their corrupter. Speak now. Who improves the youth? If he is silent: Observe‚ Meletus‚ that you are silent‚ Who improves the youth? Are you not interested in the matter? You must be If he says the law‚ society or religion: But that sir was not my question;
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Socrates as the important founder and philosopher for ancient Greek. Plato and Aristophanes are his contemporary student and friend who had written pieces about Socrates‚ we can learn Socrates behavior and thinking of their writing. This paper is responding to two articles‚ Clouds by Aristophanes and Symposium by Plato which help us finding the similarity about Socrates from texts. Socrates’s personality appeared on both text as one of the important figures which included his depth of think‚ the
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Socrates and Descartes on Dualism Dualism means the complete separation of the mental world and the physical world. In philosophy‚ it is the theory that the universe is explicable only as a whole composed of two distinct and mutually exclusive factors: the mind and the body. Socrates and Plato are called dualists because they think that mind and body are separate and distinct substances. Mind is conscious and non-spatial and body is spatial but not conscious. While separate‚ these two substances
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DOLOR‚ Anna Graciella I. September 5‚ 2012 BSPT 1 B-2 PHILO-19 Sir. Dino Cabrera Summary of Chapter 2 “THE GREEK PHILOSOPHY: SOCRATES‚ PLATO AND ARISTOTLE” There are many different philosophers who appear during the fifth century one of this were the Sophist came from the greek word sophisma and sphizo meaning “I am wise”‚ their philosophy influenced Greece that led to democracy. The Sophist
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Socrates’ discussion with Meletus stems from Meletus leading the prosecution against Socrates. Socrates is charged with “corrupting the youth and of not believing in the gods in who the city believes‚ but in other new spiritual things.” During his trial‚ Socrates is given the chance to defend himself against the accusations. Socrates argues that the charges against him are contradictory and incoherent. Socrates begins by attacking Meletus‚ using Meletus’ charge that Socrates is the only person
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Ezra Hochman Wednesday/Friday 12:25-2:05 Diogenes vs. Socrates: What is a life of worth? One can either write the story of their own life‚ or let other people and circumstances write it for him. Too often do citizens of the world follow the assumptions of society‚ as personal independence can seem frightening or uncomfortable. Both Socrates and Diogenes were of the mind that the purpose of human life is to constantly better one’s self by way of personal and spiritual growth. We are unable to
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use Nietzsche’s words to validate their ideas. The discussion of the "nobleness" of the "blond beast" could be twisted by any halfwit and made into racist ideology‚ even though Nietzsche had not the slightest penchant for such ideals. The second great influence of Nietzsche on Hitler was the idea of the superman. Nietzsche believed that certain people of the noble morality could rise above the pettiness of existence and live as a race of supermen. This idea of the superman fed Hitler’s idea of
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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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