... His ideas involving spiritual matters, the soul, individual enlightenment, and the truth are still very much practiced today. The amount of influence that Socrates has on a society depends on where that society is located as well as the type of government, leadership, and religion. Those areas that ... In his younger years he followed in the footsteps of his father and became a sculptor until he left to fight in the Peloponnesian War. When Socrates returned to Greece after the war he decided to end his previous profession and become a philosophical speaker. As a debater he quickly gained ...

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... to be the people who are supposed to be experts on all these areas. The have well thought out opinions, and they are very learned people. Socrates (470 B.C.-399 B.C.) was born near Athens, and spent most of his life in Athens. He married women named Xanthippe, who was rumored in the town ... comfort. Supposedly, he once stood in one spot for a day and night puzzling over a philosophical problem. Now you may ask what is Socrates most noted for? Well, Socrates is best known for his devotion to logic and for his great argumentative skills. But there is no general introduction into the life ...

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... and beautiful, but Jesus' ideas and life were the very embodiment of God on this earth. Christian intellectuals, drawing on this idea, have often noted that they were students of Socrates and disciples of Jesus. They were not political or religious leaders. They both were sublime teachers. Both advanced ideas of the individual over the Establishment. A threatened mob-guided Establishment ... executed both men for impiety, though neither had harmed anyone or infringed anyone's natural rights. The collectivist Establishment executed Socrates and Jesus for their individualistic, anti-establ...

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... home often wandering through the agora (an Ancient Greek market place) and discussing his ideas with students, friends and other people he found in the street. Socrates believed in questioning people and the way they ran their lives, claiming that "the unexamined life, for a human being, is not worth living". His ... large bald spot. This added to the people of the times" fascination towards him. However in the year of 399 BC charges were brought against Socrates claiming that he was guilty of not believing in the gods that the people of the time believed in, introducing new religious bel...

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... good" but rather, of the emptiness and shallowness of life. The allegory of the cave illustrates the difference between the materialistic world and the intelligible world. Socrates describes a man with his arms and legs chained, and his neck in a brace, which only allows him to look at a wall with shadows. ... mind. Reality does not change, nor the things that are considered beautiful. They are always there; it is only a matter of discovering them. Socrates believes that if man does not transcend to the world of knowledge, then he really only knows the bottom and middle layer. Man will ...

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... religions see God as a lawgiver who creates laws for us to obey. This notion, later elaborated upon and coined the Divine Command Theory, was once pondered by the Greek philosopher Socrates. In a recorded dialogue, he posed what is considered to be one of the greatest philosophical questions in history: Is conduct right because God commands it or does God command it ... has created a very large philosophical puzzle. This question presents a major dilemma if we accept the theological conception of right and wrong. Say we are to take the former option of Socrates question and assume that ...

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... will be much happier if he escapes, he will not follow the justice or moral code of the state in which he was born and raised. Socrates also gives the idea that if he were to escape, his family and friends would be happy for him, but their fellow citizens and their state ... in which they reside would not. The government and citizens of the state may take their frustration of this injustice out on the friends and family of Socrates. He says this as a counter-argument to statement made by Crito saying that he should think of the children that he would be abandoning by not ... escaping. ...

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... , people who pursue wisdom, believe that the soul is the most sophisticated thing of the human being. Like any other philosopher, in Apology Socrates defends himself from being sentenced to death by trying to persuade the jurors that he does not deserve a death sentence. The main idea is ... you in jail shows how important words are. Words itself have the ability to shake a whole system. That is what some people are afraid of, considering Socrates" beliefs and values. " I do live in a country where the authority and radioactive effect of words are demonstrated every day by the sanctions w...

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... that he must stay and accept his punishment. One of the arguments concerning the point of view that it is morally right for Socrates to escape from prison and save his own life is the following: 1.) Socrates is a parent. 2.) A parent has a responsibility to provide and care for his or her child. 3.) If a parent neglects this responsibility than the parent is putting the ... . 3.) It is morally right to maintain order and peace. 4.) Every citizen is morally required to follow the law to maintain order and peace within the city. 5.) Socrates is a citizen of the city of Athens. 6.) Socrates...

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... makes them unhappy. I will try to explain my doubts through comparison to modern day religions and our uncertainty as to the discovery of the truth. In the allegory, Socrates describes a dark cave deep in the Earth. In the back of the cave there is a fire, the only light and the only way to see in the ... come to see the stars, moon and objects in the light of the sun; thus realizing he is in a better, more genuine place than in the Cave. Socrates explains that is if the escapee, the now enlightened thinker, were to ever try to return to the Cave and explain to others what he has seen an...

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... truth. The truth may never be agreed on, nor may it never be found. Either way, truth is an aspect of life that dumbfounds and confounds humankind. Socrates is said to have been on a search for the truth. He knew not what truth he was trying to find, or even how to find it. ... The god of Delphi named Socrates the wisest man alive. After this was revealed to Socrates, he wanted to understand the statement made. Was Socrates really the smartest man alive? Socrates reasoned that in order to be the smartest man alive, he must know that he ... recognized that he knew nothing. The others cla...

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... claimed he was an "expert" in religious matters. Euthyphro defines holiness as persecuting religious offenders. Socrates found this definition unacceptable, seeing that there are many other more worthy deeds than persecuting people. Euthyphro went on to say that whatever the God's found agreeable was indeed holy. Socrates then went on to say that the God's fought with each other, so what might ... be agreeable to one might not be to another. Basically, Socrates was trying to prove that holiness cannot be defined by the Gods. Therefore, neither the Gods nor holiness can be defined becaus...

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... claimed he was an "expert" in religious matters. Euthyphro defines holiness as persecuting religious offenders. Socrates found this definition unacceptable, seeing that there are many other more worthy deeds than persecuting people. Euthyphro went on to say that whatever the God's found agreeable was indeed holy. Socrates then went on to say that the God's fought with each other, so what might ... be agreeable to one might not be to another. Basically, Socrates was trying to prove that holiness cannot be defined by the Gods. Therefore, neither the Gods nor holiness can be defined becaus...

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... can acquire all of the necessities of life. In order to resolve this difficulty, people gather together into society for the mutual achievement of common goals. Socrates states that the fundamental needs of human beings in the society are food, shelter, and clothes. Each member of the society would work to help it by ... , if the right people are put in charge". The rest of the people in the city must follow its leaders instead of pursuing their private interests. Socrates said that the happiness of the guardian must be put aside for the sake of the city. However, he points out, the guar...

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... of God is? That is an ever-present question that has caused argumentation and even war over the course of history. In the Euthyphro by Plato, Socrates asks Euthyphro a very important question on which most of the conversation is based. He asks, "Is the pious being loved by the gods because it ... that God's rules are subject to change, because then their theory would seem pretty unstable. The polytheistic side of this question presented by Socrates is pretty similar to the monotheistic view. Socrates stated in the Euthyphro that "different gods consider different things to be just, beauti...

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... desire knowledge. A philosopher is a lover of wisdom. Lovers of wisdom desire not to posses merely a part of which they lover. They desire to possess the whole. Philosophers desire all wisdom. Socrates presents the true philosophers as having a different kind of mind structure. In my perspective, the philosopher king's ability to appreciate the whole makes them worthy of ruling. I would see it ... ." The Divided Line is split into four segments respectively: shadows and reflections, physical objects, mathematics and hypotheses, and lastly is first principles and forms. With the Divided L...

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... gods are in fact demons who have designs to distract man from truth and reason. Justin also makes mention of Socrates' importance, in saying that he was one who sought to utilize reason and truth, and the charges of atheism against Socrates resulting in his death were in fact the demonic gods reacting to a man who might have awoken people to reason ... the heavens with the Logos, and thus come to know all things. Justin's apology is in some ways modeled on another philosopher's great apology. Socrates offered an eloquent defense of his position just before his execution. Like Socrates, ...

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... noticed the phenomenon of cultural differences hundreds of years ago and concluded that ethics and morals are relative. However others, including Socrates, believed that there are certain universal truths and objective considerations that all people must take into account. Thus Socrates believed that certain things are universally wrong and did not comply with these universally wrong actions within cultures. For example, it ... are equal, no single person has the right to end another's life indiscriminately or exploit his fellow man. These fundamentals transcend society and are at the r...

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... to this question was that body is "human" and "mortal" and that soul is "divine" and "immortal". This is important because from Socrates, Plato learned about body and soul and this education was the groundwork for Plato's philosophy. Platonic spiritualism is a philosophy founded by Plato that emphasizes soul over body. On the other ... ...

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... based on scientific evidence. It is a matter of faith. Science is about conclusions and facts that are consistent with current and past observations. Socrates religion was the ground for which everything he believed was based upon. In the Apology Socrates declares, "I have never promised or imparted any teaching to anybody" (Plato, pg 57). My view is that if an individual is given ... is a lesson taught and something to be learned behind the advice. I believe this because information is transmitted to individual through the five senses. Thoughts, ideas, and beliefs were expressed by Soc...

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... or iron. Children with gold mixed in them will become guardians. Those with silver content will become auxiliaries, and those with bronze or iron will become craftsmen and farmers. Plato's Socrates gave a warning that the city will be destroyed if its guardians were from groups of children without gold mixed. Indeed, elementary schools K-6 have series of tests to assess children's capacity ... 10th grade? In conjunction with pedagogy, Plato's The Republic implies one of the methods in imparting knowledge to pupils. In this extraordinary work, Plato described the method used by a teacher...

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... would say, "The gods willed it." To the Greeks and Romans, true faith was in the hands of man. Many philosophers, Socrates especially, taught that man should be a good citizen and do good works through the power of him. Socrates strongly believed in the concept of man the thinker, man the doer, and man the maker. The problem in that is the ... ...

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... questioned. Can the resistance action from the black people be considered as courage? "It takes courage to face your fears a quality of courage is that of overcoming" (Six Questions of Socrates, 219). Even though each individual will develop their own definition of courage, whenever we have to make a decision, courage must always be present. Finding a definite, correct answer is almost impossible ... ...

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... no one has gotten it just right yet because they fail to realize that no matter what they say there will always be an exception. To borrow an idea from Socrates, the one that comes the closest is the one that realizes that it doesn't have all the answers....

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... it is morally wrong. Four hundred years before Jesus was born Plato wrote Euthyphro, and in this passage he wrote that right could be seen as what the gods command. Socrates basically says back that if it is right because the gods command it, or do they command it because it is right. There are two things that all of this ... ...

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