Socrates was a sort of bridge to Plato and Aristotle. ... Socrates never comes to many real conclusions about anything. ... These are examples of Socrates response to someone else's idea. Socrates never opens with his own ideas. ... Thrasymachus, in fact, accuses Socrates of this. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
In Book II through VII of the Republic, Socrates talks about the guardians of the Luxurious City. ... Socrates says "isn"t it the laws concern to make any one class in the city outstandingly happy but to contrive to spread happiness throughout the city by brining the citizens into harmony with each other through persuasion or compulsion and by making them share each other the benefits that each class can confer on the community" (519-E). ...
In Book II through VII of the Republic, Socrates talks about the guardians of the Luxurious City. ... Socrates says "isn't it the laws concern to make any one class in the city outstandingly happy but to contrive to spread happiness throughout the city by brining the citizens into harmony with each other through persuasion or compulsion and by making them share each other the benefits that each class can confer on the community" (519-E). ...
In Plato's Symposium, Socrates shares with us the nature of nature of eros through a speech recounting his dialogue with Diotima. ... In the experience of this true beauty one sees true virtue and becomes "dear to god. " Socrates concludes his speech as follows: "And in this state of conviction, I try to persuade others that for this possession one could not easily get a better co-worker with human nature than Eros. ...
He thought the notion of a better life after death furnished the grounds for the deprecation of this life Zarathustra's speech "On Free Death" raises questions concerning both freedom and determinism with respect to one's conduct toward finitude. In Thus Spoke Zarathustra and other writings, Niet...
