Socrates in his defence explains to the people of Athens his views and their origins. ... It is a fact that Socrates wanted nothing but to speak the truth and be judged justly. ... This is perfectly highlighted by Socrates follow up statement after Meletus points out Socrates worships demigods. ... Socrates lived his life primarily to attain truth and good moral judgement. ... Socrates was also a poor man as he never charged anyone for his teachings. ...

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Socrates' life reflected everything that he taught. ... Socrates asked a lot of questions. ... When Socrates was around 30, his friend Chaerophon went to the oracle at Delphi and asked if there was anyone wiser than Socrates, the oracle gave the famous answer that no man is wiser than Socrates. ... Socrates believed that we are our souls. ... Socrates' philosophy was his life. ...

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Socrates was born in 470 B.C. There is no record of Socrates work. ... ", The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin, 1995). ... Why did Socrates accept his fate? ... Socrates, to me, is an interesting person. ...

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Socrates lived in a time when the ruling class used Polytheism to govern a great empire. The men of Athens put Socrates on trial. ... Socrates was one of many men to philosophize. ... Socrates paid the highest price for philosophizing. After a receiving a guilty verdict, Socrates was executed. ...

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Socrates's contribution to philosophy was essentially ethical in character. ... Socrates that human vices were concecuence of ignorance and tat no person is willingly bad. ... Socrates logic made an emphasis on the rational argument and the search for general definitions. ... Socrates believed that these were vital steps toward our acquisition of genuine knowledge. ... Plato began his philosophical career as a student of Socrates. ...

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Socrates's contribution to philosophy was essentially ethical in character. ... Socrates that human vices were concecuence of ignorance and tat no person is willingly bad. ... Socrates logic made an emphasis on the rational argument and the search for general definitions. ... Socrates believed that these were vital steps toward our acquisition of genuine knowledge. ... Plato began his philosophical career as a student of Socrates. ...

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Topic #1 As Socrates once stated "the unexamined life is not worth living." (Apology, internet quote site) If one agrees with Socrates then he or she would believe that living the examined life is something that is of the utmost importance. ... (Phaedrus, Socrates 2nd speech) Upon delving further into this idea, he or she would begin to see that Thomas Gilovich was correct in his belief that humans have the natural tendency to fall into cognitive error. ...

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Meno would like Socrates to enlighten him about if virtue can be taught or not. ... Socrates answers all Meno's questions. ... Meno is finally convinced of Socrates theory. ... Socrates" defense is not successful. ... After all this reasoning, Socrates differentiates true opinion with knowledge. ...

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In Plato's Republic, Socrates, Glaucon, and Adeimantus build and imaginary city. ... Socrates discusses a theory of forms which states that the physical aspect of something is a particular, like human beings. ... Socrates claims that painters have no understanding of the form or what it is to be a good shoemaker. ... The epistemological criticism of Socrates" statement is that image-makers tend to not know the form. ... But, in Book V Socrates suggests that it may be possible for an image-maker to create an image close to the true form. ...

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In their discussions and explorations of what it is that makes a person a good human being, Socrates and Confucius value many of the same traits. ... In addition Socrates would have his philosophers free of emotional attachments to any person. ... Therefore when he is on a battlefield the effect would be opposite than what Socrates intended. ... It is an inherent trait in all animals to show attachment to one of their tribe, flock, herd or school. the guardians and philosophers of Socrates are devoid of that attachment. ... Because the philosophers must stick to their dealings of their own cl...

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Plato's character Socrates is the primary force used to pick this question apart. ... Socrates immediately rejects this idea, saying We need not go far to see that true belief is not knowledge. ... Socrates advances only one premise in support of this conclusion. ... In this passage Socrates says, True opinion is no way a worse guide to correct action than knowledge. ... (Meno, 85) Socrates invokes the example of a man providing others with directions to the city of Larissa. ...

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In the Phaedo Socrates and Simmias discuss the immortality of the soul at great length. ... Yes, abundantly proven, Socrates, he replied. ... Much of Phaedo recalls the death of Socrates and based on the previous passage from page 129 it is clear that Socrates will not suffer such a fate. ... Plato understood that Socrates was going to be ok and so did Socrates. ...

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Not only did the story, "The Myth of The Cave" further explain what Plato meant by The World of Senses and The World of Ideas, some say it could have explained something about Socrates. The "cave-dwellers killed Socrates because he disturbed their conventional ideas and tried to shed some light on true insight. "The Myth of The Cave illustrates Socrates" courage and his sense of pedagogic responsibility." ... It explained Plato's beliefs and made some sense of why Socrates was sentenced to death. ...

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The Allegory of the Cave is a conversation between Socrates and Glaucon, the former telling us what he believes about reality and how we have a false interpretation of reality. ... Socrates starts his story by describing an image which is pointedly "strange", according to Glaucon. ... Was Socrates merely warning us that the things we perceive as reality are just shadows? ...

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According to Socrates, the true philosophers are appropriate for ruling. Unlike inadequate rulers that love sights and sounds for their spectacles, Socrates describes the true philosophers as "those who love the sight of truth." (475e4) Unlike true philosophers, inadequate philosophers are only interested in small parts of wisdom. ... Socrates presents the true philosophers as having a different kind of mind structure. ... With the Divided Line as a backdrop, Socrates presents the Allegory of the Cave as a metaphor that presents a person's travels from ignorance to wisdom. ... Socrates ...

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The first and greatest philosopher of all time, Socrates, didn't answer every question that was posed to him. ... From Socrates and onward, Philosophy grew and took off into a field of study that is used all over the world today. Is Socrates alive today, He most certainly is. ... Kenneth Star could be considered a philosopher, for he pursued the truth in the case of Bill Clinton, just as Socrates would have done. ...

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In the fashion of Socrates, Decartes recognized how little he did know, and tried not to profess any more. Though this was not always true (it turned out that he was very proud and sometimes unwilling to be corrected), his philosophy can be paralleled to Socrates. ...

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The quest for truth is elusive in modern society because we are accustomed to using science to show us that something is true. Not everything can be proven by science, since it requires significant material evidence to be a matter of fact. Therefore many issues are left out. Philosophy comes in ...

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Socrates (Plato) believed that the body is attached to the soul but that the soul can live independently from the body. ... I can see why Socrates would not fear death; for he would regain those ideas of wisdom in which his spirit may hold in the spiritual world upon death. ...

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Descartes has often been compared and associated with Socrates in terms of their knowledge and beliefs. ... Socrates believed he knew nothing despite being a very sociable and intelligent man although he did in fact have values. ...

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Except for a chosen few like Christ, Gandhi and maybe even Socrates, no one is really enlightened, or has seen what life is all about. ... Look at Christ, he was crucified for trying to teach as was Socrates. ...

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Plato was a philosopher who believed in higher education and was curios about the way humans learned. Socrates was Plato's mentor who had a major influence on Plato's life. Therefore, it led Plato to writing The Republic. In here, Plato stresses his belief in the search for truth, and reality, inst...

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A court for the crime of explaining his ideas, for instance, sentenced Socrates, to death. ... After notable minds of the Ancient World such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, by modernist standards, original thinking ceased for many centuries. ...

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This paper will examine Plato's theory on education as described in the Allegory of the Cave. This paper will defend the position that education is the turning of the soul in the direction of the Good, allowing people to reason for themselves. The reason why is that an individual needs to question the foundations of his or her knowledge to become enlightened, a process which is initiated through the turning away from ignorance and to the Good. Plato's Allegory of the cave, which is his theory on education that ultimately leads to enlightenment, starts off deep in a cave where there ...

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Plato was born around the year 427-347 BCE in Athens, he was Socrates' student, creating the idea of fundamental conflicts between what could be known by reason and what could be known by senses. ...

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