... a crime that he didn't commit, he refused to commit a crime even if it involved saving his own life. In his time many people professed that Socrates was the smartest man alive, which made him angry because he himself believed that he knew nothing. That very fact made him known as the smartest man alive ... a wise man is really foolish, that does not make the wise man foolish, because the wise man is still wise no matter what the masses say. Socrates also argues that he would not want to live his life knowing that he had committed a crime because it would decrease his quality of health. ...

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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. Even though Aristophones" speech is a fantastical story that explained why humans are in constant, desperate s...

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... -3999 B.C.) was thought to have never wrote anything, at least nothing he did was ever found, never-theless he left something far greater instead: his views of wisdom. Socrates believed a truly wise person would engage in these mere five steps (self-examination, becoming a gadfly, a midwife, leading a virtuous life, and indulging in a passion for ALL knowledge) and then and only ... then would one lead a truly good and healthy life. As I take Socrates philosophy and apply it to my own life and experience I feel that it makes room for great improvements. In the past I've already began to ...

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... he wants to, so early in the text. The quote on page 465 was also very strong because it was unexpected by I think both Socrates and Phaedrus. Socrates is very adamant about madness, and how it is necessary. Necessary for all aspects of life, not just academic, rhetorical or philosophical but for ... you are about your pursuit, there is only one right way to pursue wisdom. I think that this quote is the beginning of some frustration that Socrates is feeling toward Phaedrus for not "getting it". Frustration that could be characterized as passion or even madness that the reader of this di...

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... ; therefore, it is hardly a human life (120). To know one's self is to ignore what society has classified as importance to our identities: appearances, status and position of power. Like Socrates, we also live in a cultured world of dizzy excesses, crass materialism, & cut-throat competition for money, power & prestige (104). Therefore, "man's consciousness is determined by his social being."" Instead, we ... , he can feel good about himself, while learning control, coordination and concentration over both the body and soul; in other words, "because the mind is different, the man is diffe...

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... not only does he not get what he is looking for he disrupts Euthypro's thinking and actually teaches him instead of being taught by Euthypro. Socrates is the philosopher in this piece of work and uses his sense of irony to confuse Euthypro who is the philodoxer. The question that is trying ... be it about a murder or temple robbery or anything else, whether the wrongdoer be your father your mother or anyone else; to not prosecute is impious. 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...

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... timeless ideas, and is therefore a greater love than the physical love which creates children. Plato explores and defends his view of love in the Symposium, specifically in the dialogue between Socrates and Diotima (Symposium, 204e ­ 209e). Plato first defines love by examining the lover, then uses this definition to build an abstract function and purpose of love which places intellectual men ... above childbearing women. 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 Dio...

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