Phaedo

help each other out along their journey. At the end, the two of them accomplish their goal and reach enlightenment. This quote by Plato can describe them both, “All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine" (Phaedo). The two friends have achieved righteousness and are immortal in Nirvana. Siddhartha’s quest to find enlightenment and the truth is the major theme in Siddhartha. First, Siddhartha dedicated his life in the search for enlightenment. For…

Socrates is credited one of the greatest philosopher of all time and founder of western philosophy. Most of Socratic philosophy, dialogues, teaching and conversations have passed on and documented by Plato. Plato is best-known for his works including Phaedo, symposium, Phaedrus and Timeous. Allegory of the cave is from The Republic. The primary purpose is Persuasive. He is trying to persuade the reader to question the reality they believe to be real and come out of the darkness they are used to…

Pythagoras was born around 570 BCE near the island of Samos located in Eastern Aegean. Around 530 BCE, he settled near Croton, South Italy. He was considered one of the best mathematicians and scientist. One huge thing that he is known for creating is the Pythagorean Theorem, which is used when determining side c of a right triangle. Some could argue that Pythagoreanism was a cult, based solely on the idea that they used pressure in order to get others to adapt to their ideas. In around 500 BCE,…

Plato 's argument of recollection in Meno tries to solve the puzzle of how knowledge is acquired or learned. Plato, a classical Greek philosopher who is a famous writer. In Plato 's Meno Socrates , a philosopher who questions a slave into recollecting prior knowledge and not drawing any conclusions from information that is being ask of him for the first time. Plato 's idea of true knowledge is based on its usual nature and his theory of recollection, that suggest that all knowledge can…

My thesis is that Montaigne’s view of scepticism is not solely defined in his essay: An Apology for Raymond Sebond. I will argue that his beliefs and use of scepticism evolved over the course of writing his entire oeuvre. We can track this evolution by using a computer-assisted textual analysis of who are the philosophers he is referencing and when he is referencing them and the context of the references. We can also closely read a few additional critical essays including the closing work, Of…

Philosophy For The State In the Apology of Socrates and Republic, it is argued that philosophy is beneficial for the state. Advantageous can be considered an outcome that is profitable. A state is an area controlled by a ruler. Therefore, the question is whether philosophy is a reasonable method of ruling an area and in what ways. Taking the side of Socrates and his student Plato, I will show that philosophy is profitable for the state in the following ways with a focus on civilian’s behaviour:…

The goal of a definition, for Socrates, is to understand a concept in a way it cannot be refuted. This means the answer must be clear in what the concept is and what it is not. Many times a concept goes undefined in Plato’s Socratic works due to the particularity of Socrates’ method. What a concept truly is is never accurately defined to Socrates’ liking, but what it is not is very clear. Therefore it can be argued that goal of a true Socratic definition is not finding out what a concept is, but…

Melinda and Melissa have a very hard decision to make. Their brother, Matthew, was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident that leaves him incapacitated with the only sign of life being hooked up to life support equipment. According to his “living will” both sisters must equally agree upon the most critical decision of having medical staff “pull the plug,” or not. This is a huge decision that will take much consideration upon both sisters to reach a common ground with one another. Each…

I am going to argue that the Doctrine of Recollection resolves the Paradox that Meno poses to Socrates. The Meno’s paradox arises when Meno and Socrates are inquiring into what virtue is. It goes as follows, how will one know that they have correctly identified the object of their inquiry if they do not know the object they are inquiring about? On the other hand, if you know what you are inquiring about then you need not inquire, because you already know. Inquiry seems to be an impossibility or…

Aristotle’s Categories: An Analysis The Categories is a framework of Aristotle’s outlook in philosophy. It is the prologue to Aristotle’s works and sets the tone towards his philosophy. The Categories centres on the nature of a being—what it means to be a being. The idea that Aristotle is trying to present in chapter two is dividing the forms of speech in order to make the basic distinctions of them. In chapter two of the text, Aristotle identifies the four types of being. They are as followed:…