... death of Socrates, had no firsthand account of the teachings of Socrates, and learned of this philosopher mainly through Plato. More than two millennia later the exact relationship between the philosophy of Socrates and that of Plato is still uncertain, and it is this uncertainty that leads to questions of interpretation. As with the examination of any text, the question of ... . Plato's first major dialogue is The Apology, which documents the trial and defense speech of his teacher, Socrates, who, despite proving his innocence using the Socratic method, is found guilty and executed. It ...

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The mind/body issue in philosophy asks many questions. At first, what are these things, these substances, that we call "mind and ˜body?" What are their individual natures? Are they the same thing? Or are ... ultimately fail both its citizens and their minds. In the history of ideas, no one would bring greater prominence to the question of mind and body than Descartes. In his Meditations, Descartes set out to prove that in fact he was a thinking thing, and this fact alone guaranteed his existence. In effect, Descartes said: "I think, therefore I am ... be certain. So for Descartes, mind and ...

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... ;skeptical philosophical attitudes began to appear in ancient Greece about the 5th century BCE" (Popkin 1). Other philosophers (or sophists) that are more familiar to our basic learning of classical philosophy that were skeptics in their time were Protagoras and Descartes. Protagoras thought that you could make anyone believe what you wanted him or her to believe. "Protagoras is known ... man is no specific thing, therefore opening man to the possibility of being absolutely anything – this idea being as skeptic as it is. On the same note of skeptic philosophers, René Descartes express...

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