The relationship between Socrates and Martin Luther King The similarities between Martin Luther King and Socrates are so close that it's hard to imagine that either could have come up with their ideas alone. ... Is not the above quote what was the whole basis of Socrates argument in Plato's Crito? ... Socrates explains that "it is not possible that a bad man should injure someone better than himself." ... Would Socrates agree with King's arguments? Without a doubt I would say Socrates would definitely understand King's points and completely understand the need for direc...

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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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He stated that if Plato is the universal, then it is in fact Plato that is predicated of Socrates when we say Socrates is human. ... Abelard was able to determine the degree of assertive power from sentences like, "If Socrates is in the kitchen, the Socrates is in the house." That sentence expresses to assertion that in fact Socrates is in either the kitchen or the house but rather a condition. ...

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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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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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