Delphi

Sophocles’ play Oedipus Rex shows how people let their emotions control them to the point where they can no longer think rationally. There are many instances where the characters in the play let their emotions cloud their judgement, which leads to the gods punishing them for their actions. King Laius and Queen Jocasta are told that their infant son is fated to kill its father, and couple with its mother, which causes them to panic. They decide to try to prevent this prophecy by leaving him to…

which adds to the comedic sense on the audience’s side during this unspeakable tragedy. Furthermore, after Oedipus hears his prophecy of the gods, which alleges that he would “marry [his] mother… and kill [his] father” (KO 47), from the Oracle of Delphi, he escapes from his fears, “putting the stairs/Between [him] and Corinth” (KO 47) so that no such horror could ever take effect. Though against his will, Oedipus flees his home of Corinth to prove his fate and the word of god incorrect. His…

everything is the moment one becomes ignorant. The highest form of knowledge is truth. One needs to be seeking the truth in order to receive knowledge. Socrates knows that he does not know. This is what makes Socrates the smartest guy around. The oracle at Delphi told Socrates to search out for a man that is wiser then himself and while trying to do this Socrates could not find this. This is because everyone thinks they already know everything and Socrates is the only one aware that he does not…

The Oxford English Dictionary defines tragicomedy as “a play or other literary or dramatic work which combines the qualities of a tragedy and a comedy, or contains both tragic and comic elements” (“Tragicomedy”). William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale falls into this genre of writing. The first three acts of the play provide tragic elements such as error and death, while the final two acts provide comedic elements such as misunderstandings and romance. Leontes, the king of Sicilia, accuses…

Throughout history, the presence of violence justified by the credence in godly figures is exemplified, especially in Aeschylus’ The Oresteia, and Homers’, The Odyssey. Although both archaic works concern the ideologies and practices of faith in the Greek mythological gods, the reasoning for violent actions and their means of justification differ in their aspiration for and fulfillment of vengeance, their justification through the divine, and their means of punishment. In The Oresteia, Orestes…

The individual experience can cause great differences in human thought, as one’s self-awareness causes a specialized understanding of any given concept or form. Plato’s philosophy focuses largely on self-identity and awareness, which is likely derived from his brilliant teacher Socrates, who focused a great deal of his work on these very principles. Socrates highlights the individual experience as he explores piety and its many definitions in regard to his own self. In Plato’s dialogue Euthyphro…

methodology of thinking is the best. Plato highlights Socrates’s intelligence by demonstrating Socrates’s thought process behind why he questions everything. Throughout his trial, Socrates states that he gained his intelligence through an oracle at Delphi, who stated that he was the wisest of all men. By making such a bold statement, Socrates claimed that the current wise men were actually hypocrites, who were in fact ignorant. Socrates claimed to be the wisest because he recognized that he,…

1. Learning Journal Reflective Comments/Notes: Thursday Feb. 26, 2016 - I wasn 't able to make any progress today towards unit 5 as I was finishing up unit 4 's journal today. Friday Feb. 27, 2016 - I am off to a late start as today as I wasn 't able to get any work done today either. Tomorrow is going to be rough. Saturday Feb. 28, 2016 - I read the required work for the week and started my discussion questions. Sunday Feb. 29, 2016 - Struggling with the discussion questions today. I hope…

was because Oedipus remembered that he killed a man and it sounded very similar to the circumstances he was informed of. Oedipus was very reluctant to accept the truth of who the murder was. He said "why, dear wife, should we observe the Oracle at Delphi, or strain to see signs from birds screeching in the sky? They led me to believe that I would kill My father, yet he’s dead and buried deep in the earth. And here am I, who never raised a hand against him, unless my absence made him die…

Socrates is a notorious philosopher that was born in Athens, Greece. He dedicated his life to truly understanding the human mind and oneself. Despite being presumed as the 'wisest man on earth ' by the Oracle of Delphi, his aphorism was that he knew nothing, about anything. Having this mentality enabled his conscious mind to explore the unconscious and rationalize human intention. In this composition I am going to explore the sum and substance of Socrates theories in which he devoted his…