Works by Aristotle

This generalization, however, is hard to establish. It may be a rational assumption, though, that many individuals would choose a dreamless sleep over the average boring day at work, or a bad day or experiencing nights where it’s troubling to fall asleep etc. Premise number five acts another conclusion of for the sub-argument displayed in premises three and four. Five states the conclusion that anybody would choose death over…

In the Apology the concept of “pursuer” death and “pursuer” wickedness is introduced after Socrates is handed his sentence in his trial. Socrates associates the “pursuer” wickedness with all the people that voted against him in his trial, along with his accusers. Socrates believes that it is more difficult to outrun the “pursuer” wickedness than it is to outrun the “pursuer” death but, Socrates explicitly states that he would rather be outrun by the pursuer of death, than be outrun by the…

society, I do not agree that one is “to work all his life at a single trade…and keep away from all the others” (374b) as it creates a one dimensional society that defies the natural curiosity in humans. Socrates states that a city arises from the variety of needs of individuals and because of the many needs, one person calls upon another to satisfy these needs (369b-c). In order to provide these necessities, each individual is to contribute “his own work for the common use of all” (369e).…

When A Five Year Old Asks Why Have you ever met a kid who asked why to literally every answer given to them? In Plato’s Apology, Socrates attempted to defend the charges against him through cross examination and as he proposed his defense he concluded that an unexamined life is not worth living. While Socrates faced a death sentence, he continued to do so without fear of death, unlike Ivan Ilych in The Death of Ivan Ilych written by Leo Tolstoy. Although Ivan lived a life in which he held a…

Christianity. After introducing their beliefs, I will show the comparisons, and then the differences between the Form of Good and Christianity. Plato lived in Greece from 430 to 347 B.C. and he was arguably the brightest student of Socrates. In the work the Republic Plato began to…

Aristotle thinks that women are inferior to men in every single way. Many people in today’s society would also think that Socrates’s comment about men and women is way too radical and outrageous. Many people would point out today that there hasn’t ever been…

This dialogue is sometimes referred to as Socrates swan song. It is Important to be familiar with a summary of the Phaedo. It takes place in the town of Phlius, Echecrates encounters Phaedo a friend of Socrates' who was there in his final hours. Echecrates wants to hear the story from a first-hand, and presses for information. Phaedo explains a number of Socrates' friends were gathered in his cell prior to his execution. Some of these people included Crito, and two philosophers who go by the…

The ancient Greek philosopher, Aristotle, and German philosopher, Imanuel Kant, have both composed compelling arguments on what distinguishes a person who possesses good moral values from one who lacks them. Aristotle bases his ideologies on the concepts of eudaimonia and virtue. Aristotle does not place emphasis on a formulated method for determining right from wrong. Kant, on the other hand, devised a method for distinguishing good morals from bad morals. His Formula of Universal Law is an…

aristocracy. He makes a statement saying justice is the cities own advantage. They make it clear that there is an advantage but it is hard for Socrates to agree that it’s of the stronger. His whole explanation for his argument is that just behavior works in the advantage of other people. Depending on who you are and how you act determines your just behavior. Thrasymachus uses a lot of information to back up his thinking of justice. They debate for a while about what is the real definition of…

understanding the culture, circumstances, and context of each philosophy makes it so philosophers, such as Aristotle and Kant, are independent of their societal customs and laws. This supports the idea that the philosophy of virtue has evolved over time for MacIntyre recognizes that social situations effect the mind of a philosopher. For example, he shows this by analyzing how the virtues that Aristotle valued most were different from those of the medieval thinkers. As MacIntyre states in his…