Socrates, on the other hand, is very much concerned with inquiry. Socrates does not accept relativism. ... Socrates was not a skeptic, either. ... Socrates did what was right and I will explain why I think this. ... Socrates" other reply is the Argument from Gratitude. ...
He begins by debating the meaning of words, a common technique acquired from Socrates. ... In the Phaedo, he reports a conversation in which Socrates argues that the nature of knowledge may demonstrate the soul to pre-exist the conception of the body. ... In the dialogue Meno Socrates attempts to demonstrate this argument using a slave boy with no previous knowledge of geometry. ... Socrates asks Euthyphro 'What is Piety?' ... With correspondence to the religion at the time, Socrates acknowledged that moral goodness cannot be the command of the gods as they squabbled, disputed, and ...
"Plato's Republic" begins and ends with a discussion of justice. In fact, most of the book follows dialectic between Socrates and interlocutors on the nature and proper implementation of justice. A central element of this dialectic is the question of whether or not justice is an intrinsic good or if...
