Canadian Apology Essay

In Plato’s The Apology, Socrates did not apologize in the modern use of the word. He was not apologetic at all and instead defended himself. While those around him did not agree with him, he stood his ground, even when this ultimately led to his death. The first figure similar to Socrates that comes to mind is Malcolm X. These men stood for what they believed in although they had so many enemies, the same enemies who eventually killed them. As Socrates stood before a jury of fellow Athenians,…

In this essay, I will argue the main keys to the advantage of leading a just life, which better than unjust life. In The Republic by Plato, speaks through his teacher Socrates who sets out the basic laws for humans through the longest argument among group of friends in a meeting at Polemarchus house. Socrates presents a question, “What is Justice?” He continues to disprove any answer he was given. Therefore, he present no definition of his own. Later, Thrasymachus, present himself like a wild…

Over the course of the dialog from the beginning to the end Socrates was trying to teach Euthyphro. So may ask why, it because Euthyphro was the laugh of the town in Athens. He proclaimed he knew something even though was was wrong. He never admitted he was wrong. This in turn made everyone not take Euthyphro seriously. When he in process of starting a lawsuit against his father we don’t know if he at the end when he storms off, if he already started the suit or was going to be didn’t. Plato…

The setting of this epic occurs between the past and the future where a hero from the past is sent by the Gods in order to complete a mission for a well-known figure in the future. The setting for this epic begins in 399 B.C.E in Athens, Greece, where Socrates, a man who considers himself a gadfly, is being accused of corrupting the youth, of inventing new deities, and of not recognizing the Gods. The second setting occurs in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963 with a man named Martin Luther King Jr who…

“Let them keep their prodigious opinion of themselves and the bare name of Aristotle, whose five syllables delight the ignorant” (Petrarca 247). From ancient times, numerous scholars have exalted Aristotle because of his various contributions to topics and debates that seem to have withstood time until the early Renaissance period. Petrarch acknowledged Aristotle’s importance, but viewed him as only human and deferred true knowledge to God. Montaigne had similar feelings, describing humans as…

In the “Apology” Socrates is on trial for crimes he has not committed. Socrates ultimately does not fear death because of his innocence, he believes that death is not feared because it may be one of the greatest blessings of the soul. For a person such as Socrates that has lived virtuously there no reason for them to fear death. Socrates makes the argument that one should not fear death because only the gods know what is beyond death,because death could be a blessing. According to Socrates,…

Socrates, in defending himself against the accusations of corrupting the youth, uses a self devised method consisting of questions aimed at bringing to light the contradictions found in his accuser’s answers. His ferocious questions fired upon the ignorance of his respondents, who avowed a great deal of wisdom. Meletus, the leading accuser of Socrates, is convinced that Socrates is a wicked being who deliberately partakes in vandalizing the society he resides in. Furthermore, Meletus confirms…

In the Apology, by Plato, Socrates makes two particular claims about himself. The first is that he does not know anything and the second is that he is wiser than every man in Athens. While these two claims may seem contradicting to one another because of our traditional conviction of relating wisdom to knowledge, Socrates refutes this correlation with his Socratic Paradox; which instead correlates knowledge with virtue and ignorance with evil. We learn about Socrates’ notion of wisdom through…

During the axial age, “human self-understanding in major cultures around the world underwent transformations so dramatic that they constituted the most important turning-point (axis) in human history” (The search for Self- Understanding). As civilization took over in many parts of the world, people began questioning the way they lived their lives and began looking for an answer. Different pieces of literature and scripts such as the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Rig Veda and the Upanishads were written…

are incorrect. In this particular essay Socrates way of exploring things along with his belief as well as perception, is compares & contrasted with Voltaire’s perception of life. To understand the essence of philosophy in life, The Apology, Allegory…