Plato

In PHAEDO written by Plato, he explains what occurred moments before his teacher; Socrates was put to death by the state of Athens. The last day that Socrates was in prison he had a conversation with his students about what it means to live like philosopher, a life-style that depends on a very particular understanding of the soul and its connection with the body (Midterm handout). The soul, Socrates asserts, is immortal, and the philosopher spends his life training it to detach itself from the…

The term apology stems from the Greek word apologia which means ‘to defend’. In this essay I would like to explain why I believe that The Apology by Plato should be classified as pity and fear, in regards to Greek tragedy. I believe that this is true because I can personally empathize with Socrates; this will be discussed later on in this paper. A tragic hero is considered to be an individual with an intellectual flaw or error, Socrates fits this description; Socrates failed to understand that…

Plato was born between 424 and 428 B.C. and died between 347 and 348 B.C. He had powerful parents, with his father, Ariston, being a descendent of the last king of Athens, and his mother, Perictione, was descended from the great lawmaker Solon. His father died when he was very young, and his mother remarried a man named Pyrilampes. Plato had a large family, with two brothers, a sister, and a half brother. He was originally known as Aristocles, but he chose Plato as a wrestling stage name, and…

loudest to me and correlate with my beliefs. The philosopher, Plato, lived in Athens and died in 428-347 B.C. Plato lived as one of Socrates pupils and wrote the words of Socrates after his death. Before his death, Socrates was Plato’s role model and influenced Plato’s ideologies and outlook on life. Plato’s passions and ideas aspired from the relationship between the soul and the physical body and the flow of nature; these passions drove Plato to start his own school called the Academy.…

Both Plato and Descartes are similar men when it comes to the quest of knowledge. Both men believe knowledge is the product of our own reasoning and understanding of the world around us. They are both distinctive on how to answer the big question, “What is knowledge?” Plato’s way of demonstrating knowledge is his most famous examples of the Allegory of the Cave and The Divided Line, which uses the idea of sense perception. Socrates/Plato set the scenario in which there are prisoners who've been…

justification of who they are. Plato and Aristotle were two great thinkers and philosophers that differed in the explanation of their philosophical concepts. Morality is the principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior. Plato and Aristotle differed on how morality is explained. Plato would define morality as a form related to the form of the good. Plato claims that we have knowledge with things we either know or can come to know. Plato thinks the objects…

Through the Allegory of the Cave, Euthyphro, the “Socratic Method” and Apology, Plato describes how his philosophical system allow one to live the good life through philosophical examination because the “unexamined life is not worth living”. For Plato, philosophy is a process of constant questioning, and questioning necessarily takes the form of dialogue. Plato believed there is a never ending, unchanging form for everything in the natural world that exists in the world of ideas. The core…

Plato was a well-known Greek philosopher who differed from other greats around his time such as Socrates and Aristotle. Plato differed from them due to the fact he taught very general ideologies focused on the bettering of one’s self to stand in the light of spiritual truth and recognize that even the world is such a small reality; one must not be focused on self virtues but think of how to benefit one’s whole society. Plato reiterated his beliefs in some of his works such as, Phaedrus. In this…

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.…

recieving a scholarship, becoming famous, or getting a high salary job. Plato’s excerpt, “The Allegory of the Cave”, reminds me of my perpetual worries and doubts that I have of living up to my parent’s expectations. In “The Allegory of the Cave” Plato depicts a group of prisoners who can only see mere shadows as the closest thing to reality. This false perception of reality is the main takeaway of the allegory. Plato’s excerpt embodies the fact that as humans, we start off with optimistic…