Journal 2 Socrates says that if he were to escape from prison he would become an outlaw anyway and he would be judged in the underworld for running away. He would be running from the law so he would be trading the wrong that the Athen’s society is doing to him for another wrong. He justified this to Crito by saying breaking the law is really bad and no matter what he needs to follow this. He compares breaking the law to hitting a parent as a child. In escaping he would be only hurting himself and
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Socrates Duties In the Apology, it is a trail which Socrates is trying to explain his duties as a philosopher. He uses his proclaim argument of the Gadfly to explain what he trying to do for society. As a symbol of a Gadfly, Socrates states “as upon a great noble horse which was somewhat sluggish because of its size and needed to be stirred up by a kind of Gadfly (35).He imagines himself as Gadfly who is constantly trying to help society understand their negligence. From this argument he has come
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The view in which knowledge by acquaintance gives a foundation for knowledge relies on a controversial correspondence conception of truth. There are a lot of philosophers who reject the basic idea for the view that truth only consists in the representation of the world according to facts. A handful of these philosophers reject the metaphysical category of fact, claiming it as an illusion. A few of them argue that no facts are independent of conceptual framework. The world in which we live in
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The Rhetoric: Aristotle At some point or another, eventually you are persuaded or convinced to do something through some sort of speech or writing. Whereas, great Philosophers such as Aristotle have used art of persuasion in order to influence others through his memorable works of art and writings. Aristotle’s rhetoric exemplifies this by using the principles of ethos, pathos and logos. The theory of rhetoric looks at the way people use persuasion through their writing and their speeches in order
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abusing his power. Consequently, Socrates past association with the disliked Critias, his open support of the Spartan government along with Athenian democratic uncertainty lead to his trial and resulting condemnation. Socrates trial was documented by Plato in “Apology.” The Athenian court’s decision to condemn Socrates was not strategically logical because Socrates had many intellectual advocates who could easily portray him as a heroic martyr when documenting history, thus undermining their initial
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In Helen Mitchell first chapter, it was basically talking about how we explore the territory and the methods of philosophy. Starting how the pre-Socratic cosmologists launched a Western tradition of philosophy, that was mark off the traditional division of the philosophical thought. The Metaphysics is the ones to consider what is real through cosmologists. And then you have Epistemology, and what they do is explore the source of knowledge, and they focus on how we know what we think that we know
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Furthermore, they take the argument into another form. Both Socrates and Protagoras have different ideas and views on the requirements of becoming good citizens. People could be good citizens by obeying the laws yet damaging the city differently. We cannot tell how virtuously they are or good citizens to the city because madness is not a function of virtue. Socrates takes another form to ask what virtue really stand for. He believes that virtue is a singular thing and is trying to convince Protagoras
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born in 384 (BCE) in Stagire, under Macedoine, his father was a colony of Athens Member State, so he didn’t had the right to participate in the political affairs of the state. Aristotle went to live in the city in the year 367 to 347 (BCE) to study Plato. After Plato's death, Aristotle tutor for Alexandre le Grand (356-323 BCE - The conquest of Greece, Egypt, India) and he established schools near Athens called Lycée, Aristotle teach there from 335 to 323 (BCE) after Alexandre le Grand dead. Maybe
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In Justice, Civilization, and the Death Penalty, Jeffery Reiman refers to the lex talionis as the ‘law enforcement of the golden rule.” The Golden Rule states, “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. The lex talionis states, “Do unto others as they have done unto you.” Reiman suggests that if people treat you well, you will treat them well in return; if they treat you poorly, you will treat them poorly as well. Suggesting that the lex talionis is the law enforcement of the golden
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As Socrates attempts reasoning with The Laws he is pulled in a tangent of hypothetical conversation with The Laws in which his final position is established. Addressing first Socrates’ long standing inhabitance and apparent affection to the city of Athens. Seeking out no other cities and feigning any interest in their laws, Socrates then deduces that The Laws will see this as an agreement and enjoyment of Athens Laws. Finally when presented with the option of exile Socrates chose death, in doing
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