Socrates

and land lords or formal housing did not exist. Socrates whole rise to stardom is very comparable to one of a modern celebrity. Some of the actions include, “creating a Socrates ‘brand,’” that he should drop his last name because, “Socrates Pappandreopoulos is too chunky for people”, and booking him at parties and weddings. It is mocking how people become famous today. Creating irony because it seems ridiculous that someone as intellectual as Socrates would get famous this way but the…

Socrates vs Sophists Although both the Sophists and Socrates are considered philosophers due to their interest in human morality, their outlook regarding the subject of truth differs greatly. The Sophists, were skeptics on the matter of the existence of eternal truth, whilst to Socrates truth was an absolute. First of all, sophists took money for their efforts. They charged people and claimed that their teachings would make people wiser. Socrates, on the contrary, made no money for his efforts,…

literary works composed as notable nor influential as Machiavelli’s consummate discussion of politics, known as the Prince. Equally if not more significant, however, is Plato’s account of the Apology by Socrates and the subsequent events illustrated by the famous Greek philosopher in Crito between Socrates and his titular comrade. Both texts, being written in times of abundant political alteration and conflict, make powerful statements about politics and take firm stances on the function…

Socrates had one goal with his teachings, to question those that surround him and to make those people question different aspects of their life. Once Euthyphro explains that his father killed someone and that he has to prosecute him, Socrates immediately questions his actions by saying, “Is then the man your father killed one of your relatives? Or is that obvious, for you would not prosecute your father for the murder of a stranger.” Euthyphro tries to tell Socrates his actions are justified…

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 father who had murdered a murderer. Socrates asks how Euthyphro knows that prosecuting his own father is the good…

As we know, Socrates and Descartes are two of the most influential philosophy figures to date. However these two men lived in two very different time periods and places. Socrates, Greek in nationality, belonged to the ancient period, whereas Descartes, French in nationality, belonged to the modern period. One may conclude that because of such diversification this might have been why their views on philosophy were so different. While i do shed some light on the background of these individuals let…

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…

multitude of “ideal” forms of governing. In the Republic, Plato has made his own form of it. His governing involves the instatement that philosophers ought to be the primary rulers in a city/state; the Callipolis. With this set up Plato, through Socrates in the work Republic, conducts a systematic questioning of being. As the Republic, itself is an attempt to answer a problem with human behaviour; the notion of justice. To deal with this problem of justice Plato considers what would make an…

Socrates chose to philosophize for pleasure but was directed to live a private life in order to do this. Philosophizing, or arguing an idea in terms of one’s philosophical theory, is not much an act of the concealed. Likewise, being a philosopher does not happen for those who are concealed. While some believe Socrates’ life would have been better off lived privately, living a private life is contradictory to maintaining the life of a philosopher. Even though some might say Socrates would have…

understanding and comprehending reality. In the book The Apology of Socrates, Meletus of the prosecution is blinded and sees reality in a distorted sense due to his large pride and hatred against Socrates. Meletus is the “representative”, in a sense, for the poets who Socrates insulted by insinuating that the poets were not wise. Meletus is rather indignant with Socrates and also is puffed up in his own self-importance. Socrates questions Meletus with very intensive questions and Meletus…