Plato, as a student of Socrates, documented the views and arguments of Socrates in The Republic. Socrates' arguments presented in The Republic were very convincing and logical. ... One key argument that proves to be relevant in modern day is Socrates' view of what justice is. On book one of the republic Socrates' argues with Polemarchus about justice. While Socrates definition of justice remains bound to human virtue and soul, his arguments clearly indicate how, as human beings, we share common behavior. ...

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Socrates begins questioning Cephalus out of natural curiosity. ... Predictably, Socrates explores each one, revealing every little imperfection in his search for the truth. ... Until the entry of Thrasymachus, Socrates' associates have accepted his philosophical suppositions as a process rather than a viewpoint, as Socrates has been offering positive solutions and ideas. ... Before this, Socrates only desired knowledge, whereas now he desires the satisfaction of being right. ... The flaw of this method is that it assumes that Socrates will find the correct answers to his questions. ...

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While put to trial, Socrates discusses the issue of his faith in the God of the oracle and what it had prophesized. ... We, however, still read Plato's work about Socrates centuries later. ... Socrates. ... Socrates did this in many senses of the word. ... Witnessing Socrates bring life to Plato's take on philosophy, we see his i...

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Euthyphro doesn't realize it, but his definition for piety is an identity claim, or at least Socrates constructs it as one. Socrates is arguing that the pious is not the same as the god-loved. ... When I say that the 1) author of The Apology was a student of Socrates and a teacher of Aristotle, it is identical to saying that the 2) author of The Republic was a student of Socrates and a teacher of Aristotle. ... Socrates' argument undermines Euthyphro's definition for piety by showing Euthyphro that if he holds his definition as true, then he is also saying that he believes that ...

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Viewed as the greatest philosophers of their time and in Ancient Greece Aristotle, Socrates and Plato's works had much influence and continue to have influence in the western world to date. ... Through their works that will be discussed herein, it will be evident that Plato's, Aristotle's and Socrates' works are still the ultimate basis of western society. Socrates' ideas are never really documented since he never really wrote a book but just went around teaching, embarrassing and humiliating important people. However, the works of Aristotle as well as Plato are eviden...

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When Socrates heard Lysius' speech, he immediately presented a counter argument of his own, or so it seems. Instead of disagreeing with Lysius, Socrates presented the same argument, but from the opposite point of view. ... Socrates employed empty, but crafty, rhetoric just like Lysius, in order to seduce Phaedrus for his own. Just like Lysius, Socrates used his words for his own benefit. ... Afterwards, Socrates expounded upon the nature of rhetoric. ...

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In Eugene Ionesco's play, Rhinoceros, one of the major themes that he depicts beautifully is of the absurd. Throughout his comedic acts, he illustrates a society of people that are in a condition in which the townsmen exist in an irrational and meaningless universe, and which human life has no ulti...

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Socrates in "Plato Gorgias" says, "And if anyone asks of us what sort of persuasion, and about what, - we shall answer, persuasion which teaches the quantity of odd and even" (483). Furthermore, Gorgias, a Sicilian rhetorician who was a successful Sophist in Athens (376–483 BCE), in a dialogue with Socrates, states that rhetoric is an art that is mostly used in courts of law and other assemblies about the just and unjust. (484). ... Socrates says, "Seeing, then, that not only rhetoric works by persuasion, but other arts do the same, as in the case of a painter&qu...

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The origin of modern science was founded upon by key moments in time in which philosophical thinkers begin to construct foundational roots to the science we know today. It began with a society not like any other, in which an atmosphere of new and innovative ideas could flourish. In which questions o...

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In his introduction to Plato's The Republic, Desmond Lee refers to Plato Socrates and Aristotle as the founders of the intellectual tradition of the West. ... In "Stolen Legacy,"(James, 2009) he argues that Desmond Lee's view of Plato, Socrates and Aristotle as the shapers of the intellectual tradition is flawed, he states that Socrates was executed for bringing foreign teachings also causing Plato and Aristotle to flee because "philosophy was something foreign and unknown to them. ...

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Plato's thoughts on reality were "heavily influenced by Heraclitus, Parmendes, and Socrates " (Silverman). Plato's metaphysical view, for example, has us divided into two worlds: the becoming and the reality. The becoming is the physical world that we are in, and the world of reality is a population...

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Where Socrates puts it to Glaucon that an imitator is "he who is not in direct contact with nature", with Aristotle the best poets, in order to work their imitations, must be closely allied with nature. ... Plato therefore seems to cover the case of his own dialogues, where he speaks through the mouths of Socrates, Adeimantus and Glaucon. ...

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It is through the publication of the Republic that he expresses the viewpoints of Socrates and his thoughts on the influence of music to the world. ... Socrates references metals that inevitably voids the idea of unity as it enforces a division in class. ...

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Swiss-French writer Benjamin Constant and ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle offer conflicting viewpoints concerning the merits and possibilities of ancient Greek democracy. Aristotle's political theory attempts to justify his city-state's political structure by providing a model of the common good...

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Aristotle had a lifelong interest in the study of nature and philosophy. As a Greek philosopher and a student of Plato, he investigated a variety of different topics, ranging from general issues like motion, causation, place and time, to systematic explorations and explanations of natural phenomena ...

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