From what we learn of him in Plato does Socrates offer a philosophy that is genuinely progressive and radical in its wish to reform the society of the day? Following the Socratic model what role, if any, could philosophy play in addressing political and moral problems of our times? In this essay, I will attempt to argue that Socrates does offer the society of his day progressive and radical philosophy. ... I will rely on two of Plato's works in my argument, The Apology and The Crito. ... Thus it can be said that Socrates does offer a philosophy which is radical and progressive in it...

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It starts with Plato's notion of Justice and moves on to a sophist philosopher Thrasymachus who simple believed that our justice is serving the interest of the stronger people in society rather than the weaker. ... The opinions of different great people were criticized by Plato. ... The Darwinian idea of through uniformity biological section, I want to deliberate the idea of an equivalent ethics in instructions to teach that such a philosophy can positively be present. ...

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Antigone's predicament coincides in many ways with Socrates' ethical dilemma in Plato's "Apology- and the "Crito."" ... He knows himself that doing philosophy every day is the greatest good. ... Then the court orders him to abandon philosophy on pain of death. ... As was argued, since the god commands the practice of philosophy and the pursuit of justice, to obey the god is to obey one's own reasoned conclusion about the just. ... Thus Socrates in the Crito recognizes the validity of, exercising one's own moral judgment when it results from careful reasoning from phil...

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