Trial of Socrates

through the examples of love. Plato uses Socrates in his dialogues to explain the difference between the world of the being and the world of becoming and the effect that the difference between the two worlds has on the search for knowledge. The symposium begins with several men discussing love. They all give speeches declaring what they think of love, then it is Socrates’ turn. Socrates begins by asking Agathon if he can ask questions of him about love. Socrates begins by asking, “Is love of…

Laches is a 'definition' Dialogue, which aims to give definition of andreia (courage). Socrates and other characters scrutinize a number of possible definitions of courage as part of pursuit to discover that excellence is an introduction to an enquiry into how it might be taught and who will be qualified to teach it. The latter stages are never reached as it is characteristic of Socratic dialogues that the definitions all fail and discussion ends in confusion. At the start of the dialogue there…

Aristotle (384BC-322BC) was a Greek philosopher who is considered to be one of the greatest thinkers in the history of western philosophy and science. One of his most influential works is the Nicomachean Ethics, where he puts forward a theory of happiness that is still pertinent today. John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) was a British philosopher who has had a considerable influence on contemporary moral and political philosophy. Both Aristotle and John Stuart Mill develop their ethical theories around…

Persuasive Essay A question asked for ages. Something that's kept great philosophers minds going. What makes us human? Is it our intellect? Perhaps our physical appearance? But, something many can agree on is that what just makes us so vulnerable, is the thing that mostly makes us human. It is our way of feeling and expressing emotion. Now, when most people think of what separates humans from animals, intellect might come to mind. Since we have our own language and can comprehend…

difficult to imagine that a man that lived over twenty four centuries ago still has no parallel competitor to the amount of influence that he had. The man’s name is Plato. A student of Socrates and a teacher of Aristotle, he founded one of the first advanced academic institution in the Western world. While Socrates may have been his teacher, Plato was the one who decided to write them down into books which obviously prolongs the time of his thoughts and knowledge. While he had many important…

In the Symposium, Phaedrus, Pausanias, Eryximachus, Aristophanes, Agathon, Socrates and Alcibiades all gather at Agathon’s residence to share a drink together. All of whom, not including Socrates, are part of the elite; intellectual and aristocratic. The reason for such a high profile gathering was their intention to celebrate Agathon’s victory at a contest; he was a playwright in tragedy. He is described as a young beautiful man with a superior command of words. Soon after their dinner, they…

and Aristotle, two great philosophers, sought to describe ethics with relation to politics reaching both similar and different conclusions. The following paper discusses the relationship between ethics and politics as per the philosophies of Plato/ Socrates and Aristotle by making a comparison of the two.…

Plato is an ancient Greek philosopher who was considered to be the father of educational philosophy. Plato used to be a follower of Socratic in education. He is the one who founded the Academy in Athens and wrote many philosophical works including The Republic, which outlines Plato's utopian society and his thoughts about political and educational issues (Gutek, 2009). Historically, Plato's beliefs in philosophical thought are the idea of perennials, perennials is an educational philosophy based…

One of the earliest contributors to psychology is the ancient Greek Philosopher Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E), who in his book, “Peri Psyches” (translates as, ‘About the Psyche’) argues that human behaviour, like the movements of stars and seas, is subject to rules and laws. Among many other related things, Aristotle also declared that people are motivated to seek pleasure and avoid pain. This view remains as current today as it was in ancient Greece. Behavioural Psychology is a branch of…

While talking to these people, he realized that the answer they give him back after he asks a question was not satisfying to him. He learned that they all don’t know how to say they don’t know and so, Socrates concluded that none of them were wise as they claim to be. While he was getting back to his place, he thought to himself “I am wiser than this man: neither of us knows anything that is really worth knowing, but he thinks that he has knowledge when…