Trial of Socrates

However Diotima is not at the dinner party, therefore we rely on Socrates to tell us what her opinion of love is. The majority of philosophers consider Diotima’s speech to be the highest point of the symposium dialogue, while Aristophanes speech is discredited as a comical view of love (Nussbaum, 1979). Diotima and Aristophanes…

pivotal figure in the field of philosophy and political thought. What does remain of his work today continues to be influential and relevant. Along with his teacher, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato laid the foundation for Western Philosophy as we know it. “The Allegory of the Cave”, from The Republic, is a dialogue between Socrates and Glaucon. The allegory serves as a prime example of an enduring thought experiment demonstrating a facet of human nature relevant to a number of fields…

Jean de Dieu Kamiri Professor Steven Phil 1301 02/08/2018 Title: Thales vs. Homer Abstract: Thales is the Greek philosopher, he is the first person to investigate the basic principles, the question of the substance of matter, and he foundered the school of natural philosophy. He is in among seven sages of Greece. He did research almost all areas of knowledge, mathematics, politics, history, science, engineering, and philosophy. He suggested concepts to explain many of the events of nature, the…

Paradise Lost holds some of the greatest literary elements throughout its series of books. This work, by John Milton, showcases many persuasive skills and rhetoric. Aristotle once stated that rhetoric classifies as “the ability, in each particular case, to see the available means of persuasion.” Among the three main arguments in Paradise Lost, each carry, at least, one form of Aristotle’s rhetorics: Ethos, Pathos, and/or Logos. Whether it be Eve persuading Adam, or Satan persuading Eve, each…

The Allegory of the Cave is a hypothesis put into perspective by Plato, regarding human awareness. In the short story a group of prisoners have been confined in a cavern ever since birth with no knowledge of the outside world. They are chained facing a wall unable to turn their heads. While a fire behind them gives off a faint light. Sometimes people pass by carrying figures of animals and other objects that cast shadows on the wall. The prisoners believe that the shadows are real and they begin…

Megan Sanders Phil 101 Explain Socrates’ view of the fear of death (see 29a-c, 40c-e). Is any of this plausible? Socrates views death as something we should not fear. He believes we have no right to be afraid of death because we do not know what or who awaits us after we pass; and for the people who are afraid of it are considered ignorant. As in they believe it is something to fear because they do not know what is going to happen next. Socrates believes that is considered ignorant or…

Aristotle is considered to be one of the most influential philosophers in many subjects; one of these subjects being political theory. He has influenced how the framers made the constitution and the content put into the important document. His works and opinions still continue to greatly influence our current government due to the lasting effects of where his beliefs were placed; like in official documents. His contributions to our government are very prominent, but he is often not credited.…

“Allegory of the Cave” was written by Greek philosopher, Plato. Plato successfully pursued his mentor, Socrates, as his dialogues and writings became well known in society today. The cave in this excerpt can be interpreted into many many ideas. Based on “Allegory of the Cave,” the cave in the passage represents lack of knowledge (lecture 2015) since the prisoners believed that the shadows of objects were the true form. Moreover, my cave would be my parents and their perspective on appearance…

Also in “Self-Constitution in the Ethics of Plato and Kant”, by Christine Korsgaard, Plato's constitutional model says that the procedures that unify a city are based on the actions that unify a person's soul. This makes a city appear to be an agent, "it is not just a place to live, but rather a kind of agent which performs actions and so has a life and a history. And we can see the same three parts in a political decision" (Korsgaard 105). Plato believes that reason is used so people can be…

Philosophers are often criticized for their ideas because people in the society we live In are afraid of change. Aristotle is a human who did nothing to harm people but spread his philosophy about the “true” and “corrupt” government, as he believed that his philosophy would provide the “best opportunity to lead a good life.” (Atkinson 43) His ideas ridiculed, Aristotle tried to teach people that citizens under a defective government will become interested with the pursuits of a ruler, but not…