In Phaedo, Plato recalls Socrates' last hours of his life in a jail at Athens. ... In the dialogue, Socrates talks about the after life, and how it exists. ... Socrates believes people recollect knowledge of their previous lives through the objects they see. ... Socrates believes that humans must have had some previous knowledge of Equal. ... Socrates' theory of recollection is not adequate for the idea that souls are immortal....

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How would I ever be able to withstand the logic and wisdom of someone like Socrates? ... I believe that Socrates would absolutely find this value to be a great thing. ... Socrates would be the man that would give you constructive criticism. ... The difference between Socrates and myself, is that I don't wear ALL of my values on my sleeve. ... Unfortunately, this is one thing I believe Socrates could offer very helpful insight to. ...

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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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Thus making the people of Athens the chourus and Socrates the dicordant member or making the people of Athens the singer and Socrates the untuned lyre. ... Socrates could not live with being untrue to himself. ... Socrates speaks of the sense of being ashamed in the Crito. ... In the Apology Socrates is convicted for unjustified crimes. ... It's then when Socrates questions his good friend about escaping. ...

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Plato was supposedly a pupil of Socrates, and it therefore has to be kept in mind that he would have been biased for Socrates and would have wanted to portray Socrates in a good light. ... In the final part of his speech, after it has been decided to give Socrates the death penalty, Socrates speaks on his beliefs concerning death. ... Although this was not written down by Socrates himself, it seems clear that the Defence of Socrates can be taken as fairly true to Socrates. ... The character of Socrates seems equally unbelievable. ... There is no evidence to show exactly whom Socrates did wo...

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Socrates believes that the everyday world is an illusion compared to the world of knowledge. ... Socrates says, "the capacity for knowledge is innate in each man's mind." ... Socrates explains that the mind, body, and soul must all be in unison in order to be healthy, then happiness will ensue. ... Socrates believes that every man is part beast, and part lion. ... In order to avoid this, Socrates places limits on the subjects that the arts deal with. ...

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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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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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During this debate, the idea of "learning as recollection" is introduced by Socrates. Socrates calls this idea of "learning as recollection" a meaningless argument. ... Socrates says that the human soul is immortal and can be reborn again and again. ... The boy seemed to know nothing about Socrates" problem. ... In conclusion, Socrates" beliefs make sense in some ways. ...

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Socrates is the first philosopher, I will discuss. Since Socrates did not write anything down, Socrates thinking is told through his student, Plato, who wrote his teachers" thoughts. Socrates is an idealist who believes that things are in born. ... Socrates states here that true knowledge is that is learned. ... Hume's beliefs are different from Socrates. ...

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Socrates discusses a few parts of philosophy with Glaucon, and Adeimantus making a few comments to the questions of Socrates. ... Then Socrates is asked, " What is the highest knowledge". ... Only then the men Socrates is discussing with do they inquire to know what exactly is good. Socrates admits that he cannot truly give an explanation of good. Socrates gives an attempt but says that he will give his explanation but may fail in his attempt. ...

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Socrates the "father" of all philosophy is where most all most all the ideas of our modern philosophy scheme come from. His thoughts on philosophy are very complex yet simple at the same time he always pushed the envelope in his theories and how he got people to think; and that is exactly what Socrates saw it to be, it should always make a person think and keep on reevaluating ones self. ... Socrates is a very revolutionary man and his thoughts are still believed all throughout the world and that everything is to be challenged and never settle for the first response or answer to anything th...

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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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Looking at the novel from a dualist perspective Plato and Socrates agree with Locke. ... This would contradict what Sartre says, but if you look at it from Plato and Socrates view all these actions that Winston is performing have nothing to do with his immaterial self; his soul. ... These are, Socrates believed that the mind has an irrational part, which is controlled by emotions, and this is drawn to the body.  However, "Socrates argued that the best way for us to learn the truth about the world, is to use rational thought to understand the true nature of ourselves" (Klus). As wi...

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This "Allegory of the Cave" is a dialogue or conversation between Socrates and Glaucan, where Socrates compares the issues appearance vs. reality and education vs. ignorance. The "Allegory of the Cave" Socrates sums up his ideas and puts it into a conversational from between him and his student Glucan. ... Socrates describes a dark scene, a group of people are living in a cave since childhood. ... Socrates explains two kinds of learning in the conversation with his student one that is told and expected to be believed and the one is learned by a person's own experience ...

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I think the most important lesson taught by Socrates was an idea presented to Dan near the beginning of the book. ... Socrates touches on this subject at various times and points during Dan's journey. ... Another quote by Socrates concerning happiness comes from a different aspect, "You cannot attain happiness, it attains you - but only after you surrender everything else." ... As Socrates explains to Dan, "Love is not something to be understood; it can only be lived". ...

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Plato was a student of Socrates and though the writing of "Allegory of the Cave" is all his own the basis for his ideas came from none other than his own teacher. ... Socrates is in fact a main character in the conversation from which this excerpt is taken. ... According to Socrates in this dialogue, living a life with true knowledge and enlightenment is living a philosophical one. ...

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Plato explores and defends his view of love in the Symposium, specifically in the dialogue between Socrates and Diotima (Symposium, 204e ­ 209e). ... Diotima teaches Socrates that the lover of good things wants to possess them so that he might be happy (204e). This definition of a lover applies to everyone, for Diotima's assumption, supported by Socrates, is that "everyone wants good things to be his own forever." (205a) There is a need to refine this broad definition which would include as lovers those who try to attain the good by any means. ...

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The Allegory of the Cave Plato was the son of a noble and wealthy family, and had planned to have a career in politics when the trial and eventual execution of Socrates altered the course of his life. ... Unlike Socrates, Plato was both a writer and a teacher. His writings appear in the form of dialogues, with Socrates as the main speaker. ...

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Throughout the book he referred to Socrates and other Greek characters. He remembered that Socrates had a chance to escape to Sparta or Crete since he was going to be executed. ... This reference back to Socrates made Tim think about escaping to Canada to avoid going to the war. ...

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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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Bad Euthyphro Euthyphro did not act pious toward his father at all. If he had been trying to be a pious human he would to think deeper in to what he did. Euthyphro turned in his father for killing one man, but he only satisfied one part of being a pious person. According to the American Heritage D...

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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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As I entered the payphone booth the phone rang. While answering the phone I was beamed through the space time continuum to some third or even fourth dimension. When I exited the booth I found myself in a classical room filled with early philosophers. Among these were Anaximander, Heraclitus, Anaxa...

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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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