place in the prison where Socrates was confined awaiting his execution. It is in the form of a dialog between Socrates and Crito, an elderly Athenian who for many years has been a devoted friend of Socrates and a firm believer in his ethical teachings. The conversation takes place at an early hour on what proved to be the next-to-the-last day that Socrates remained alive. Like both the Euthyphro and the Apology, this dialog reveals something of the character of Socrates by describing the manner in
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Socrates Philosopher Socrates was a classical Greek Athenian philosopher. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, he is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of later classical writers, Wikipedia “Personal background” Born: 469 BC, Athens, Greece Died:399 BC, Athens, Greece Full name: Socrates Nationality: Greek Era: Ancient philosophy Region: Western philosophy School: Classical Greek Main interests: Epistemology, ethics Notable idea: SocraticMethod,
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Possessing all the right virtues disposes a person to live well, while happiness is the activity of living well, which the virtuous person is inclined toward. Aristotle’s concept of good appears to be the same as Plato’s. In addition, Socrates’ life as expressed in the Apology demonstrates that integrity is also necessary in order to keep these virtues in tact; and in turn, integrity will lead to happiness. One way in which Aristotle refers to virtue is as the potential excellence of an individual, which
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trying to convince Socrates to escape from prison. Crito wants Socrates to think about whom all will be impacted by his death. Crito fears that all whom are impacted by him (socrates’s) will make his friends look bad. People will believe that they did nothing to try to save him, which would mean that they failed to save him. Also, Socrates should not worry about the risk or the financial cost to his friends. They are willing to pay, and they had made arrangements to find Socrates a life a good in
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Texts and Ideas: Antiquity and Enlightenment Dr. Jeffrey Rubenstein Paper #1 Outline and Rough draft due in recitation sections on October 2-3 and will be returned Oct 8-10. Final Papers due October 15. No late submissions will be accepted without prior approval. Papers should be emailed to NYU classes AND a hardcopy turned in. Directions: * Select one out of the following three questions. Write an essay of approximately and no more than 1200 –1500 words. (Use the “word count”
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In comparing the evidentiary documents from Robert W. Strayer’s Ways of The World, the Analects from Confucius’ teachings, the Bhagavad Gita from the Hindu Scriptures, Socrates’ Apology, and Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount teach similar values. In each example, the master, the deity, the inquisitor, and the teacher challenge the prevailing theories about life and virtue (pp. 199, 201, 203, 206). The key message is to find virtue by treating others with respect and to live more simply by denouncing material
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Was Socrates a Sophist? (20 mark) Sophists were known as teachers of rhetoric, philosophy and virtues. They were well known in ancient Greece for making the weaker argument the stronger and for speculating on sciences that went against the ‘gods’. They were often regarded as intellectuals as the word sophism derived from the word ‘sophos’, meaning wise man. In the latter years of Socrates’ life he has often been regarded as a Sophist but there are many evidences which prove he is not. Firstly,
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was made the criterion for participation in political life. While the government changed the mindset of focusing on the good, the polis did not. During these times, the texts “The Life of Solon” written by Pluratch and “Apology” written by Plato accounting the trials of Socrates show the unjust nature of Athenian government. I will argue that the polis was a community whose authority governed every aspect of life, giving Athenians no individuality outside government. Freedom
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As one analyzes the “Apology” by Plato, one is able to analyze and contrast and most people would agree with Socrates when he claims that “…the unexamined life is not worth living…”. From a more personal standpoint I would completely agree with Socrates point of view, due to the fact most of us in society have chosen to live the “unexamined life” for centuries and as a result we live in a society where one has to live segregated from our freewill as human beings as well as a society that is restrained
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Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle were important philosophers in classical Greece (Matthews, Noble, Platt, 2014). Plato was one of Socrates followers. Plato was recognized for his most famous doctrine known as the Doctrine of Forms, even though there was never a clear explanation for its existence; but his student Aristotle did offer various arguments for it. Plato knew that his doctrine never made sense; however, he created an analogy and called it the Allegory of the Cave which supports what he stood
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