Socrates Grumpy Men Analysis

The Greatest of the Intriguers:
An Analysis of Socrates in Plato’s Republic
Socrates, the great Greek philosopher has a well-established history of being a man of wisdom, of insight, and of intellectual superiority. Philosophy is only a minor part of the array of things Socrates pondered, he was essentially a philosophical hero, always challenging people’s beliefs, and yet not being a man of materialistic power himself. Socrates is very well-known for Plato’s Republic, a book about a question which seems to address every important question ever asked, “What is justice?” As Socrates has lengthy discussions on this topic, many young philosophers and old grumpy men impose their opinion on how to answer the question. Repeatedly, Socrates turns down their suggestions only to pose more questions branching from the one. Socrates is a critical thinker, using his mind as a tool of objective, not subjective, challenging society and all that comes with it, causing politicians and Sophists to …show more content…
Socrates highly emphasizes humility along with these propositions to keep the investigators calm as they ponder his questions. Unlike Thrasymachus, most of the men who look up to Socrates take on this humble way about them, or at least attempt to. With all of these ideas, Socrates is creating an ideal Republic, as Bernardete agrees, “The last argument thus seems to be a promissory note that, we are led to believe, the rest of the Republic, once it has supplied the conditions and determined the obstacles, will pay in full.” Socrates is a humble man, yet powerful, and shows his humility in that he seeks council from the elderly, he is wise because he poses questions to which there is no answer, classifying them as life questions, and last, because his questions leave his students wanting