Polina Vulakh William Mullen First Year Seminar 09/29/2012 On the Discrepancies in Socrates’ Argument of What Truly Is in Plato’s Republic In Plato’s Republic‚ Socrates presents us with the notion that there exists an entire realm of what truly is: That someone who’s a lover of learning in his very being would be of such a nature as to strive toward what is‚ and wouldn’t linger with the many particular things that have a seeming of being‚ but would keep going and not blunt the edge of
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Republic"‚ in the piece there are conversations between characters Socrates and Glaucon‚ Aristophanes‚ Adeimantus where they try and explain ideas and views of justice and what a truly just man and/or just "state" would appear How we come to the decisions as human beings that would be for the greater good of a man and/or state. One conversation between the parties was that of how a truly just state would look like and Socrates answers by declaring that a state might find justice when the overall
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The Ancient Greeks‚ Part Two: Socrates‚ Plato‚ and Aristotle Dr. C. George Boeree "The unexamined life is not worth living." -- Socrates The Athenians When we think of ancient Greece‚ we think right away of Athens. Several of the philosophers we have already discussed considered it the pinnacle of their careers to come and teach in this great city. But Athens wasn’t always great. It began as a collection of villages in some of the poorest agricultural land in Greece. Only carefully
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ends‚ it will hurt either way you go. A leader is like a needle; guiding people towards either one of the sides. Martin Luther King Jr. and Socrates were both great leaders because they fearlessly dedicated their lives to their countrymen each had a unique vision. Though they lived in different time periods‚ King‚ a man who fought against segregation‚ and Socrates‚ one of the founders of Western philosophy‚ had many similarities; their power and influence. Martin Luther King Jr. was a great speaker
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(for example‚ courage or piety) fit in to the overall definition of doing good and living by the correct moral standards. The dialogues of the Apology and the Crito deal with the trial and sentencing of Socrates‚ facilitating a discussion about an individual’s morality in abiding by the law. Socrates does show us that civil law should be treated as a moral obligation‚ by proving that to ignore the rule of law would be to commit moral wrong. He then qualifies this by illustrating that lawfulness is
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speech‚ “No Evil can happen to a Good Man”‚ was a defence speech to the jury in his trial in Athens where he was accused of denying the Athenian gods‚ corrupting the social fabric of the city‚ and turning the city’s young men against their fathers. Socrates was a philosopher who did all his teachings orally. One of his famous pupils was Plato‚ who recorded this address as his master‚ instead of emotionally pleading to spare his life‚ calmly used it as an occasion to explain himself
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Martin Luther King Junior and Socrates argue for a different meanings and reasoning’s behind the differences of a single person and the law by which we have to follow. They were written many years apart but they are still very similar to the ideas of justice. The way that the two argue are almost completely opposite depending on the way that they feel towards authority and inner direction or moral guidance to lead you by. In the Crito‚ Socrates provides a lot of different arguments to understand
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What is the primary philosophical issue which Socrates and Euthyphro are in disagreement? The primary philosophical issue Euthyphro and Socrates disagree on is “what is holy and what is not holy” p7‚ 5c11-d2. Socrates extracts Euthyphro’s thoughts on what the definition of holy verse unholy is in an attempt to use them in his own trial‚ and later to show Euthyphro that his ideology is flawed. Socrates takes the side of essential knowledge (the nature of something). Euthyphro takes the side
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two sets of accusations made against Socrates? From the knowledge obtained about Socrates‚ we can conclude he was not considered a favorable man amongst the people of Athens. He was a good man with an ancient reputation of fallacious wrongdoings. Socrates’ reputation and his chosen life path led to his unfortunate trial‚ in which he was accused of numerous accounts of misconduct. The accusations made against Socrates are summarized in 19b‚ as “Socrates is a criminal and a busybody‚ investigating
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that the real problem is caused by democracy‚ Socrates suggests that people should come to philosophers for rule rather than philosophers volunteer to rule. In Book VI of Republic‚ Socrates provides another analogy to illustrate his point: “The natural thing is for the sick person‚ rich or poor‚ to knock at the doctor’s door‚ and for anyone who needs to be ruled to knock at the door of the one who can rule him” (489 c). Here‚ in my interpretation‚ Socrates sardonically emphasizes that the way democratic
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