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. ...

• Word Count: 786
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 883
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

So against his friends and disciples pleas Socrates drank up his poisonous hemlock, and died. His friend Crito tried to change Socrates mind to escape by using a couple of arguments. ... When Socrates tried to explain to Crito that he should not worry about the opinions of others, Crito pointed out that if Socrates had worried about the opinion of others then he would not be in this predicament. ... Another fact that Crito brings up is that Socrates has five children and it would harm them if Socrates killed them because they would have to grow up without a father figure and they would als...

• Word Count: 1176
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ...

• Word Count: 2519
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 1752
• Approx Pages: 7

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. ...

• Word Count: 1591
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In Plato's Symposium there are three major speeches given by Aristophanes, Socrates and Alcibiades, where each portrays a different aspect of human sexuality and love. Aristophanes" speech is a fantastic representation of humans that were separated into two halves engaged in desperate search for their other half, while Socrates" speech is a rhetoric of a conversation he was engaged in with the priestess Diotima, and finally Alcibiades" speech is a tribute to his teacher Socrates. ... According to Socrates" speech the priestess Diotima taught him that all creatures, especially humans,...

• Word Count: 608
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Socrates and Confucius Essay Socrates dilemma about escaping with his friend Crito was a very serious problem in my point of view. ... The third principal from Socrates was to never to deliberately do wrong. ... Socrates last concept was that by escaping, it will harm the law and the community of Athens. ...

• Word Count: 817
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

As Herrick tells the tale of Socrates, the great Greek philosopher, he explains who he was, how he was, why he was, and the reasons for his death. Socrates said, "The Unexamined Life is not Worth Living!" Herrick tells us how Socrates would go to the "agora" and question people casually "What is truth? ... " Socrates was advocating for the examined life, so in my mind the "Unexamined Life is not Worth Living" is a very true statement. ...

• Word Count: 1045
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Socrates and Euthypro, two men of same times, and knowledge come together and converse on a subject that makes each other question and defend each other's respected beliefs and convictions. ... Socrates is the philosopher in this piece of work and uses his sense of irony to confuse Euthypro who is the philodoxer. ... Socrates was not satisfied by the vague and unfulfilling answers that Euthypro and often would ask him questions such as " What then do we say about the pious, Euthyphro? ... Socrates had a different premise on how to satisfy and what satisfied to gods, he believed that the ...

• Word Count: 671
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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...

• Word Count: 267
• Approx Pages: 1

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 ...

• Word Count: 1581
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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". ...

• Word Count: 1426
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 1202
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 1318
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ...

• Word Count: 1388
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 435
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 1156
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Good morning everyone. I am the first speaker of the negative side and we oppose the innocence of Oedipus. First of all, Oedipus was the child sent away by his biological parents due to a prophecy and adopted by the royalty of Corinth and eventually became the prince. Many events happened in the st...

• Word Count: 1032
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Summary of Cicero's, On Duties This excerpt from the book, On the Good Life, is a letter from Cicero to his son. I couldn't even imagine getting something like this from my father. It is full of great advice on how to live your life in such a way that you are regarded as a highly favorable person...

• Word Count: 1720
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocritical, and skeptical. I believe that human life is valued less than it should be, that it does have a meaning. ...

• Word Count: 5369
• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School