Phaedo

victim therein is the person him/herself. Looking at the history, people of the ancient city-states (especially the Greeks and Latinos) does not regard self-killing as a legal act and there is no such term as “suicide” before. Plato, in his books Phaedo and Law, discusses that suicide is perpetually wrong because for him it represent as releasing ourselves from a “guard-post” from a gods have placed us in as a form of punishment. Another reason is that for him, is it an unrespectable act…

Emma Pollock Drs. Merz and Rennie HON 202 18 February 2017 De Docta Ignorantia: As a triangle is a circle, man is unbound from Being On a temperate day, centuries ago, Nicholas of Cusa was at sea returning to Venice from Constantinople when he claims he was led, through “supernatural generosity of the Father, so that he grasped the incomprehensible incomprehensibility in learned ignorance through the transcendence of humanly knowable yet incorruptible truths.” (Miller) A disciplined and varied…

When I was 2 years old my family and I lived in a tiny brick building on the corner of A street in Altus Oklahoma, in the parking lot of the church my dad worked at. One day there was a white pick up truck parked in the parking lot, closer to the church, and the janitor of the church was giving away Labrador puppies. There were a few in the truck bed and one in the truck, the only boy and the janitor was not giving him away. My family had been wanting a pet and this was the perfect opportunity…

. If one had to ask me before taking this “Introduction to Philosophy” course what Philosophy was, I would have formulated my answer to be somewhere along the lines of “It is..ya’ know… the questioning of everything?” and would have tried to promptly change the subject as I actually did not have any idea as to what the subject of Philosophy actually encompassed. However, now after the course’s completion, I have not only acquired greater understanding, but I have also gained much interest on…

Plato vs. Aristotle—A conflict of “Ethic” proportions Plato and Aristotle are arguably two of the greatest philosophers to ever live. Though each philosopher has his own, separate ideas, both Plato and Aristotle make valid points about their own theory of ethics and their methods of reasoning. Both philosophers created works that have influenced some of the worlds most popular enlightenment thinkers like Hobbes and Nietzche as well as ground breaking scientists such as Copernicus and Galileo.…

In fact, in Phaedo, he goes into detail about why the separation of the body and soul is a positive thing; the reason being is that the soul is now free from desires and false perceptions that the body was making (Plato, 106). The only reason one must live righteously…

Socrates was definitely different from the ordinary man in ancient Athens at the time. Not only was his way of thinking different from what people of that time period were familiar to, but Socrates was also a very compassionate man. Socrates cared more about helping others grow intellectually and opening the eyes of his pupils to view the world in a completely different way. It makes one wonder how an extraordinary man, like Socrates, was willing to receive his death sentence from people…

Argumentative Strategies of Plato vs. Aristophanes In Aristophanes’ “Clouds” and Plato’s “Apology” Socrates is satirically attacked and rationally defended respectively. The two argumentative styles of Aristophanes and Plato are on opposite sides of the spectrum. Aristophanes utilizes satire and humorous exaggerations of sophist teachings to denounce Socrates. Alternatively, Plato’s “Apology” uses logic and reason in order to defend himself against the charges brought against him. Both…

He mentions it here and there throughout his works (but primarily in Phaedo and Republic), and he refined it as the years went by. So, completely understanding the Theory of the Forms requires reading all of Plato’s works and piecing together the fragments. Here’s the Reader’s Digest version of what you get when you assemble…