... this is, of all inspirations, the best and of the highest origin to him who has it or who shares in this madness, is called a lover (483). Taken from Socrates 2nd speech, Socrates is using madness now on a different level, this time as tool to describe inspiration to be a lover. Socrates literally cites his entire speech to explain how madness leads ... fair young Phaedrus that unless he pay proper attention to philosophy he will never be able to speak properly about anything (517). I feel that Socrates at this point, after his 2nd speech is royally pissed at Phaedrus for telling the ar...

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... which he so yearned? For Socrates, the jury's verdict signifies the "natural culmination of everything which he had been pursuing in this life" (2nd Apology, 7, 99). Finally, death frees him of all the human bodily needs and desires (2nd Apology). As he is about to transcend into the next world, Socrates bids his earthly companions farewell. As if nothing out of the ... ...

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... an issue that is deadlocked and try to find some other way to argue the point. (Example: abortion debate - deadlocked on whether fetus is a person and hence deserves person-rights) - 2nd clever style of argument: pulls up presuppositions. The conservative claim that sex becomes cheapened and perverted by porn seems to rely on a particular conception of sex that is not shared ... ...

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... of Periclean Athens. At first, Socrates was a sculptor, like his father. He created the statue group of the three Graces, which stood at the entrance to the Acropolis until the 2nd century. In the Peloponnesian War, he served as an infantryman. He fought at the battles of Potidaea, Delium, and Amphipolis. Socrates liked to argue instead of write. Therefore, he spent ... ...

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