Socrates Essays

After being sentenced to death for his controversial views and teachings of politics and religion to the youth of Ancient Athens, the historical philosopher Socrates was given an ultimatum to spend the remainder of his in exile. To this, Socrates stated “the unexamined life is not worth living”. [i] Like the subjective nature of philosophy […]

Inspired poetry and prophecy tell us many fine things. But we cannot easily understand what these things tell us. Thus, even when the messages we have achieved through such means seem very clear, we must never suppose that we are in a position to claim to know that what we are told is true. In […]

Suicide (and euthanasia) is now center-stage on the public agenda. Various opinion polls reveal considerable support for a person’s right to die, and several legal proceedings invoked against people who assist in suicide (or euthanasia) usually result in verdicts that are mere slaps on the wrist. Even the rock singer Kurt Cobain, who committed suicide […]

A friend of Socrates, Chaerephon, asked the Oracle of Delphi if there is anyone wiser than Socrates. The goddess answered that there is not. (Plato, p. 50). Aware that he cannot claim wisdom, but intrigued by the Oracle’s answer, Socrates embarks on a journey to find someone who is truly wise. The method he used […]

In The Republic, Plato wrote a dialog between Socrates and his friends about the meaning of justice. They came into four definitions of justice, returning debts, helping friends, a system that benefits the strong, and a virtue that feels food. When asked about the meaning of justice, Cephalus believed that justice was the repayment of […]

The purpose of this paper is to prove that Socrates is successful in replying to the objections of Simmias and Cebes in Plato’s Phaedo, and in proving the soul to be immortal. Simmias’ objection basically challenges Socrates’ claim that the soul is immortal. Simmias inquires why the soul is not similar to a lyre and […]

Socrates says that there is no point in being angry or sad at this moment.  How much longer does Socrates have to live before he will be executed, and what will determine this? He probably has a day or two more to live, because he will be executed when the ship arrives and that ship […]

Throughout Plat’s play, Omen, many rhetorical devices are used to display the concept of defining virtue followed by exploring whether it is innate or taught. Plat’s character Socrates uses these devices to explain his logical thinking and his questions to Omen. Rhetorical devices also help the concepts be easily understood by the reader. Through the […]

Harmonizing to Socrates a merely metropolis where most of the population is virtuous. because a merely metropolis is based on the virtuousnesss of wisdom. moderateness. and bravery. The ground the metropolis came into being was for justness. non pleasance and felicity. Wisdom and good judgement are based upon cognition. Besides. Socrates examines the consequence of […]

In his novel Brave New World Aldous Huxley warns of the consequence of over-reliance on material knowledge. Plato’s account of the last days of Socrates also presents us with an argument against materialism, but rather as dialectic. Huxley is trying to come to grips with a modern world in which material values reign supreme. In […]

Philosophers during the time of Athenian prosperity are concerned and intrigued on the searching and on classifying stuffs or things whether it can be considered as a knowledge or an opinion or a truth or mere interpretation. This debate is unending but necessary to examine for epistemological sakes since it is one of the fundamentals […]

In a democracy, ought members of a persistent minority feel obliged to obey laws with which they do not agree and have no hope of changing?Firstly, we must establish what a “persistent minority” actually is. In block 3, it is described as people who are always on the losing side of elections (Block 3, page […]

Question 1In this essay I will answer two questions that relate to Freidrich’s quote, ‘[T]he feeling of another person should never be imposed upon us as a law’. Question one will answer; in my opinion is Friedrich’s view consistent with Rousseau’s ideas from The Social Contract. Question two considers what evidence there is in David’s […]

At the beginning of 19th Century, there was a shift amongst some artists in the portrayal of the male nude; they ignored the traditional neoclassical aesthetic of masculine and stoic forms, and instead pursued an essentially feminised, more sensual male nude. This feminised form was a result of idealising the nude, influenced from the Platonic […]

Frederich Nietzsche is a German philosopher who grapples directly with all the problems most central to contemporary civilization: the advancement of technology and its invasions of the human spirit; and the violation upon the individual by related forces, all acting to suppress and dampen the discovery of his own being. In popular culture, Nietzsche’s notion […]

They made many contributions to the modern world that are still important after all the time since they disappeared. The people who lived in the Mediterranean were the most important to the development of Western civilization. Ancient Greece had some of the best philosophers in history. One of these thinkers was Socrates. Socrates thought that […]

Credited as one of the laminitis of Western doctrine. he is a puzzling figure known chiefly through the histories of subsequently classical authors. particularly the Hagiographas of his pupils Plato and Xenophon. and the dramas of his modern-day Aristophanes. Many would claim that Plato’s duologues are the most comprehensive histories of Socrates to last from […]

Peoples are like soil. They either nourish you and assist you turn as a individual or they can stunt your growing and do you wilt and decease. Famous, witty quotation marks such as these did little to endear their writer to the ordinary multitudes. Yet, such fulmination, the resulting choler it evokes and self-contemplation it […]

The dialogue opens up with Meno asking what virtue is and whether it could be taught. Socrates asks Meno for a general definition of virtue, since as Socrates points out, we cannot figure out if virtue can be taught if we do not have a clear idea what it is. Socrates is looking for a […]

What is the meaning of life? Well known Greek philosphers such as Socrates and Plato believed that our purpose in this life was to gain knowledge in preparation for the next life. Other Philosophers such as Epicurus believed that pleasure is the main goal in life. After giving these ideas lots of thought, I have […]

While reading “Drug Policy as Social Control” by Noam Chomsky and “Crito” by Plato I noticed a similarity between the two. People in higher power have ways of stabilizing populations. The government is customized to make people fail and the less fortunate are targeted. The inequalities of the government aren’t dealt with but they surely […]

Oedipus the King: Critical Paper Sophocles is able to accomplish to achieve several objectives in his play, Oedipus the King. Sophocles magnificently retells a classic Greek tale while also describing the characters and their motives in great detail. Of the characters Sophocles naturally spends the most time characterizing the protagonist of the play, Oedipus. Sophocles […]