... to the Webster's dictionary, justice is: the principle of moral rightness; equity. Justice and fairness are synonyms. Henry David Thoreau would completely agree with Socrates" above quotation. Thoreau argues that government should be based on conscience and that citizens should cease associating with an unjust government. Thoreau writes: "How does ... is formed, one that is based on majoritarian politics, people should stop being involved in politics. Thoreau and Socrates both agree that it is not possible for justice to exist in the political world. Both of these intellectuals give ver...

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... justice but it is the implementation that leads to the injustice. The Socratic-Platonic view of the law becomes simplified and is personified in The Crito. Socrates has been dawned to his execution and is caught in between a moral dilemma. He has the choice of betraying the law and the state or betraying ... you are able?" The peculiarity about the excerpt dealing with law is that the law is personified to this humanly figure. They, being the laws, question Socrates in his own mind, asking, what exactly is he trying to do. The characterization of the law plays an important role in the tex...

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... find one view that was the least reasonable to me. I was mostly impressed with Victor Frankl, but I can identify with all the views presented. The first is being that of Socrates. His view to "know thyself", as depicted in Plato's Apology he saw the possibility of learning what is really good, in contrast to accepting mere outward appearances. He sought to ... ...

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... men (and learn from their mistakes) we can be sublime. Ralph Waldo Emerson acknowledged another aspect of idealism. "Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever too flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."" ("Self-Reliance-). Emerson ... ...

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