Sophist

In today’s society, education is the process of inheriting information from not only societal interactions, but also lessons taught in the school classroom. Students have grown up in different locations, surrounded by diverse groups of people, which comes into affecting the way in which they learn. The circumstances that they are born into should not affect the quality of learning and knowledge they get, but because of unforeseen situations, it happens- too often. The obstacles faced in…

The impact of Ancient Greek society on the Modern Western World is still felt and seen in many different ways. The Ancient Greeks had many distinct views and contributions to Philosophy, Architecture, and Literature. Ancient Greece was the birth place of Philosophy. Many Greeks were wise beyond their years and had a curious and philosophical nature. “The Greek thinkers invented “natural philosophy”, a term that encompasses the fields we now call “Philosophy” and “Science”. Pg.47, Chapter 2:…

Athens on Trial In 399 BCE a grave mistake was made by Athens which will go down in history. It was the trial and execution of Socrates, a great and mysterious philosopher. Socrates was charged and found guilty for not worshiping the gods and corrupting the mind of the youth. Both off the charges are trumped up or not true at all because he believed i vn the Oracle of Delphi but did not agree with what it was saying and that he did not tell the kids to follow what he was doing, they did it on…

During the start of class week four we started our discussion on the reading, The Apology, by Plato. We brought up some key points to pay attention for when reading, and also some vocab words to help us better understand the text. One of the words we mentioned was exordium, and how the goal of this action was to gain your attention. Focusing more on the reading we discussed how Socrates age should have played a “trump” card in his trial. In some cultures age is well respected, and elders of that…

When the plan to attend the Thinkery is first proposed, Strepsiades mentions that they will teach the unjust and just arguments for a fee (Aristophanes, line, 98). This immediately associates Socrates with the Sophists, a group of men who claimed wisdom in the art of rhetoric and reasoning. However, they were most often associated with fallacious reasoning, the type one would call the unjust argument. The unjust argument, while capable of easily winning over the…

knows that Hippocrates is young, naïve, and excitable, so he questions him about what he really wants to learn from Protagoras. He says to Hippocrates, “Are you going to commit your soul to the care of a man you call a Sophist, and yet you hardly think that you know what a Sophist is?” Socrates, being a philosopher, cares more about knowing the truth and being correct about your beliefs. But what we learn about Sophist’s is that they are teachers of rhetoric, which means they teach you how to…

37). From the his father’s description (line 67-70, 73) and the conversation, one can conclude that Pheidippides has been a spoiled and selfish kid influenced by new ideas before getting educated by Socrates; he even disdains Socrates and calls the sophists “pasty looking frauds” at first (line 103). Even if they never met Socrates in the story, the father would still attempt to come up with some shady schemes to prevent repaying the debts eventually while the son continued pursuing his…

There is a runaway trolley barreling down the railway tracks. Ahead on the tracks there are five people tied up and unable to move. The trolley is headed straight for them. You are standing some distance off the tracks on a footbridge standing next to a very large or fat man; we will call him the portly fella. You can push the man off the bridge, and his body will fall onto the tracks and stop the trolley from killing the five people, but will kill the individual you pushed off the…

No other thinker had such a great influence upon Kierkegaard as the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates, not even Hegel, the German idealist who seems to have heavily influenced the Danish intellectual circles of the time as well as Kierkegaard himself. Kierkegaard envisaged his own task as a Socratic one; he took upon himself being the gadfly of Denmark, just as Socrates was the gadfly of Athens. It has been pointed out by George Pattison that Kierkegaard sought orientation in Socrates, and…

and if there were wiser people other than himself. Plato did not believe that Socrates was the wisest, to him wise was seeking the truth with facts and not fallacies and images. Plato felt philosophy had nothing to do with being a physicalist or sophist nor were the Socrates either of these things and felt e was the most ignorant person because of the lack of knowledge dealing with the two but these accusations arouse towards him over the years from general prejudice surrounding him. This led…