Apology

Robert Jones Professor Robert Hubbard PHIL 100 A0 October 9, 2015 Different Worlds of Philosophy Throughout each era of history a constant similarity was philosophy. Within almost every era, society had a belief system and along with a belief system came laws that set a standard for the people. With all of this came men who thought deeper in some aspects of life and began to seek answers for complicated issues, such as how do you show piety to the gods? Two of the known philosophers where…

Particularly, in the play, Artistophanes’ Clouds, the playwright depicts Socrates as the pinnacle philosopher of the Thinkery in Athens. Socrates is an influential thinker, a man who creates high pursuit for knowing the truth in determining a situation from right or wrong. Specifically, Socrates applies critical philosophy to each issue thus, finding a natural explanation for doing the right thing. However, this then leads to practical and skeptical wisdom, which Socrates uses the practical…

The original Euthyphro problem arose in ancient Greece where people, including the ones in the discussion, were Pantheists. The two main characters in the discussion were Euthyphro and Socrates. Socrates is famous for leading discussions by asking questions that were meant to get people to think. All we know about Socrates is through the writings of Plato, who was Socrates' pupil. From reading a translation of the original document it appears that Euthyphro was at the court to prosecute his…

Plato’s dialogue Euthyphro is conversation about Piety between Socrates and young man whose name is Euthyphro. Beginning of book, both two guys meet on the courts. Socrates is under indictment by Meletus for corrupting young peoples and not believing in gods in that the city believes, Euthyphro’s business at court is that he prosecuting his father for the murder of a slave. Beginning of dialog, Socrates and Euthyphro are trying to protect themselves from their situation. Socrates’s pleading…

I am Crito, a 66 year old farmer who lives just outside of Athens. I am a Socratic, and one of Socrates most influential followers (ROLE SHEET). Since the time Socrates has been put on trial for the charges of corrupting the youth and not believing in the God’s, scholars, professors, students of all kinds, and being charged of treason. Citizens have argued and debated the truth behind his sentence. I know there are some citizens out there who believe that Socrates is basically guilty. But,…

When Socrates claims that he is wiser than the other citizens of Athens, although he is ignorant, because this was Socrates way of proving his claim. Before Socrates makes him claim, he was puzzled at the fact that the Oracle Delphi said in a prophecy that there was no man wiser than Socrates. Only knowing that he has no particular knowledge or wisdom, he went into town and asked the people who felt highly esteemed for their wisdom. After interrogating a variety of Athenian men, from politicians…

“Time does not exist” is a controversial statement for several reasons. Aside from the fact that if it were proposed a few centuries ago it would have been deemed cause for involuntary commitment; the remark disputes itself. Since the ages when Socrates and Plato implored others to question their surroundings, establishing the field of philosophy, people have neglected to attain an answer to a question involving one of the most fundamental properties that fosters all existence, what is time?…

Socrates was a very influential Greek philosopher and is responsible for the Western systems of logic and philosophy today. He lived in Athens and he treated the place like his classroom in a way that he like to talk to people and teach them the right of way of doing things. This, however, made him people unpopular among the citizens of Athens and, as a result, he was on trial to be put to death. Socrates finds himself in a situation where he has a chose to have it easy or have it the hard way.…

Socrates and Phaedrus, the two main characters of Plato’s Phaedrus, ruminate on many things, ostensibly love and erotic love, however the dialogue also discusses rhetoric itself and the ways in which it is and should be practiced, as well as subjects such as metempsychosis. The dialogue in Phaedrus does not allow for other interlocutors to introduce the story, or a retelling of events preceding the scene. This is somewhat unusual as it comes as a first-hand unmediated dialogue, and plays out…

The first premise of Socrates’ argument against corrupting the youth is that evil people harm those around them. “Don’t bad people do something bad to whoever’s closest to them at the given moment, whereas good people do something good?” (Hackett, 68) Meletus agrees with this argument, and Socrates moves on. The second premise of his argument is if he corrupts the youth, he either does so intentionally or unintentionally. The third premise is if he corrupts the youth intentionally, then he…