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A Civil Role Model
1,133 wordsThe word civil carries a lot of weight. The usage needs to be carefully considered when it's entered into a sentence or a phrase. Civil means a wide variation of things. It can be defined as a way to be observant of the forms required for good breeding. It can also be a means to the needs and affairs of the general public. However, the latter of the two definitions can also be stretched to include a definition of the private rights and the remedies sought by action or suit. The point is that the...
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Gale Research Man Named
1,242 wordsThroughout history there have been many philosophers that have made great impacts on the students for many years. One philosopher in particular that has made a tremendous impact on the youth of the world is a man named Plato. Plato is one of the worlds most famous writers, and is still being taught to this day. People ask why this man is so important and why he should be still studied today when he is something of the past; well I will help them see in my paper just why he is so important to thi...
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People Like Plato Youth Of Athens Socrates
1,298 words... arctic, he drew forth information from his students by pursuing a series of questions and examining their answers. Socrates integrity with the knowledge of one's true self, holding that no one knowingly does wrong (Hooker. 1996). Socrates beliefs can not be studied firsthand because Socrates did not keep any written record of his thoughts. Socrates wrote nothing because he felt that knowledge was a living, interactive thing (Hooker, 1996). We do know that Plato copied from Socrates the metho...
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Corrupting The Youth Socrates Believes
1,793 wordsThe Apology, written by Socrates student Plato, is a narrative of Socrates addressing the Athens Court of Justice for which he states he is on trial for being an evil doer, and a curious person, who searches into things under the earth and in heaven, and he makes the worse appear the better cause; and he teaches the aforesaid doctrines to others (Harwood 201). In another passage in the Apology Socrates states others accuse him of not believing in the gods of the state, but in other divinities, a...
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Attitude Toward Politics Devotion To Truth Socrates
1,463 wordsI. Socrates The most interesting and influential thinker in the fifth century was Socrates, whose dedication to careful reasoning transformed the entire enterprise. Since he sought genuine knowledge rather than mere victory over an opponent, He familiarized himself with the rhetoric and dialectics of the Sophists, the speculations of the Login philosophers, and the general culture of Periclean Athens. Socrates employed the same logical tricks developed by the Sophists to a new purpose, the pursu...
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Philosophy Analysis Of The Apology By Socrates
1,125 wordsIn The Apology, Socrates talks positively about an instance in which he committed an act of civil disobedience, but in The Crito he argues that civil disobedience is not an acceptable option. These two claims are irreconcilable. Although Socrates claims that civil disobedience is never alright, he insists he would practice philosophy even if it were against Athens law. Although Socrates gives himself an out when he says that one must either accept the law or argue that its unjust, I do not think...
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Order To Save Socrates Believed
1,398 wordsIn Plato's dialogues, Euthyphro, Apology and Crito, Socrates demonstrates his belief that the most important thing is not life, but the good life (Crito 48 b). Socrates believed that a good life is equivalent to one that is just and honorable. The good life is also one where the beliefs and morals of a person are not put aside in order to save ones own life and wealth should not be desired. The true purpose of philosophy is not to give answers to questions but to raise more questions to the answ...
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Plato Apology Greek Society
1,506 wordsAristophanes denounces the importance of the gods' influence on the actions of mortals. In the usual tragedy, the gods play an extremely important role towards the actions of the mortal characters. Through fear of the alternative and examples of the past, Athenians carried out their everyday lives under the guidance of the gods' wishes. Aristophanes challenges the audience, and Greek culture as a whole, by offering a different view on the answers and directions of life, than that of the gods. He...
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Telling The Truth Plato Apology
1,455 wordsWho is real Socrates: the humble man or the heroic figure? Plato's Apology portrays Socrates as the person of definite kind of personality this is a self-assured man, generous, indifferent towards the successes of human living. He was sure that a divine spirit directs and inspires him, and that a clear mind is the primary condition providing for virtuous life of human. If the last point is not taken into consideration, Socrates resembles the Christian martyr or a Puritan. The last part of his sp...
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Things Socrates Taught Socrates Was Teaching Meno Virtue
1,060 wordsIs Socrates a teacher? During the dialogue between Socrates and Meno one of the questions raised is can Socrates be a teacher of virtue. This question, however, becomes more complicated when the matter concerns virtue itself. For teaching virtue Socrates first must identify its meaning and nature and then argue if he can teach it or not. Further on, Socrates comes to discuss his own capability of teaching and his defence here is that he, as a philosopher, has his own students, or its better to s...
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Apology Of Socrates Socrates Mentions Jury
1,435 wordsThe well-known Apology of Socrates is the stenography of philosophers defense at the final trial of 399 BC, which survived to our days in two different and independent copies, one of which was written and edited by his famous student and follower Plato, and another by his philosopher friend - Xenophon. Unfortunately these copies possess a certain portion of writers view points since there were no official court records made during the process. First of all, we must define the correct meaning of ...
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Youth Of Athens Corrupting The Youth
1,876 wordsSocrates At the elderly age of seventy, Socrates found himself fighting against an indictment of impiety. He was unsuccessful at trial in the year 399 B. C. The charges were corrupting the youth of Athens, not believing in the traditional gods in whom the city believed, and finally, that he believed in other new divinities. In Plato's Apology, Socrates defends himself against these charges. He claims that the jurors opinions are biased because they had probably all seen Aristophanes comedy The C...
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Apology Of Socrates Socrates Mentions Trial
1,606 wordsTrail and Death of Socrates One of the most famous philosophers of our history Socrates had lived his last days in a pretty controversial way. He was accused for several faults that he was barely aware of. There was a trial, which raises a definite question of whether or not this trial, as well as its outcomes, was just. In order to answer this question in an appropriate way, we must turn our attention to the existing, probably the most reliable, information source that survived up till nowadays...
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Taking Into Account Apology Socrates
2,108 wordsIn the play The Last Days of Socrates by, Plato, Socrates is found guilty of the charges brought against him. Taking into account the articles Euthyphro, the Apology, and I. F. Stone s article, When Free Speech was First Condemned, it is not surprising that Socrates was found guilty. In Euthyphro, and in I. F. Stone s article, Socrates shows the reader that he is aware that his charges are severe and perhaps it is better for him to be convicted. It seems to the reader that Socrates is actually t...
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Death Of Socrates Laws Of The Gods
2,460 wordsWhat Justice Served JUSTICE SERVED What is the relation of the state to the individual? Should obedience be paid to the will of the state, or to the justice with which it conflicts? If loyalty is required, is it conditional; necessary only part of the time? And, given that the state and the individual will inevitably disagree on some issues, who suffers in the end? Through their writings, Plato and Sophocles outline two sides of this issue. In Euthyphro, The Apology, and Crito Plato expresses a ...
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President Ronald Reagan World War Ii
2,907 wordsIntroduction In December 1982, the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWIRC) concluded that the evacuation and incarceration of 120, 000 Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II were the result of racism, war hysteria, and a failure of the nation s leadership. Six months later, the commission recommended that the U. S. government offer a national apology and payments of $ 20, 000 to the surviving internees as a form of redress. On August 10, 1988, those recom...
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