Plato’s Defence of Socrates is important because makes us understand life in terms of knowledge, ignorance and personal interest. The Defence of Socrates made it clear that we should always stand up for what is right like the way Socrates did by accepting his death punishment rather than accepting imprisonment or banishment and he will stop philosophizing. In this paper, I will explain Socrates philosophy and I will state my point of view in the definition of philosophy and open question. In the first section of the paper, I will explain the three principal component of Socrates philosophy (i.e. irony, method, and ethos) by explaining how they relate to Socrates famous statement “the unexamined life is not worth living.” In the second
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Examples are, ‘what is beauty? ‘what is courage?’. This kind of questions are called “What is X?” and Socratic definition is the answer to “What is X?” question. Socrates’ does not want to know What the word beauty means but the nature of beauty itself. The best example to this kind of method is Euthyphro, Euthyphro was a religious expert and we are not sure if he was a temple priest, he defined piety as what the gods all love but Socrates disagreed with the definition because saying piety is what the gods love is the same thing as creating a pool for what everyone loves so therefore Euthyphro definition of piety is just a poll of opinions. Socrates later got Euthyphro to admit that things are not pious because they are loved by Gods but they are loved by the Gods because they are pious. Socratic method leads to “The unexamined life is not worth living” because people to examine themselves they follow what everyone else does and that type of life is not worth living because it is full of deceit and lies. For example if you ask someone what they like and why they it, they will reply because it is colourful, durable, elegant but someone who claim to like something because of the popularity has no reason for liking it other than because other people likes it, then he or she is basically living a part of other peoples life or he is living his own life in deceit and lies and the life worth living is a life wherby you are doing what you like doing, Socartes lived his life, the way he wants, doing want he likes and he found no reason to live if he is not going to do what he likes doing and that is one of his reason for him to accept his death sentence rather than imprisonment or barnishment whereby he wont be able to
Examples are, ‘what is beauty? ‘what is courage?’. This kind of questions are called “What is X?” and Socratic definition is the answer to “What is X?” question. Socrates’ does not want to know What the word beauty means but the nature of beauty itself. The best example to this kind of method is Euthyphro, Euthyphro was a religious expert and we are not sure if he was a temple priest, he defined piety as what the gods all love but Socrates disagreed with the definition because saying piety is what the gods love is the same thing as creating a pool for what everyone loves so therefore Euthyphro definition of piety is just a poll of opinions. Socrates later got Euthyphro to admit that things are not pious because they are loved by Gods but they are loved by the Gods because they are pious. Socratic method leads to “The unexamined life is not worth living” because people to examine themselves they follow what everyone else does and that type of life is not worth living because it is full of deceit and lies. For example if you ask someone what they like and why they it, they will reply because it is colourful, durable, elegant but someone who claim to like something because of the popularity has no reason for liking it other than because other people likes it, then he or she is basically living a part of other peoples life or he is living his own life in deceit and lies and the life worth living is a life wherby you are doing what you like doing, Socartes lived his life, the way he wants, doing want he likes and he found no reason to live if he is not going to do what he likes doing and that is one of his reason for him to accept his death sentence rather than imprisonment or barnishment whereby he wont be able to