Meanwhile messengers had been sent to Athens to inquire of the interpreters of religious concerning what should be done with the man. By the time the messengers returned the criminal had died from hunger and exposure. Euthyphro was willing to prosecute his father to cleanse himself and his family from the religious pollution caused by the murder. What is piety?” Socrates asked Euthyphro to answer. He asked Euthyphro this question to test his intellect and she if he is indeed as smart as he claims.
Plato's Republic centers on a simple question: is it always better to be just than unjust? The puzzles in Book One prepare for this question, and Glaucon and Adeimantus make it explicit at the beginning of Book Two. To answer the question, Socrates takes a long way around, sketching an account of a good city on the grounds that a good city would be just and that defining justice as a virtue of a city would help to define justice as a virtue of a human being. Socrates is finally close to answering the question after he characterizes justice as a personal virtue at the end of Book Four, but he is interrupted and challenged to defend some of the more controversial features of the good city he has sketched. In Books Five through Seven, he addresses this challenge, arguing (in effect) that the just city and the just human being as he has sketched them are in fact good and are in principle possible.
Theme Analysis | The Euthyphro is primarily concerned with asking a Socratic question, "What is piety?" and working through arguments to arrive at a credible answer. There are however, several important and underlying arguments going on beneath the surface of the text. Plato has written this book in his usual dialectic fashion, which was also considered by himself and Socrates to be the only way at which philosophers could acquire knowledge and a soul good enough to commune with the Forms in death. The dialectic simply means question/answer format.
Keywords Plato, Symposium, intrinsic value, rational motivation, eudaemonism 0. Introduction The heart of Plato’s Symposium (199d-212a) consists of a series of claims and arguments that are represented as being put forward by Socrates, as his contribution to a discussion of the nature of love (ἔρως). For most of this part of the dialogue (from 201d onwards), Socrates is represented as attributing these claims and arguments to a mysterious priestess whom he calls Diotima. As I shall argue, these pages in fact contain a brilliant and © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 DOI: 10.1163/003188609X12486562883093 298 R. Wedgwood / Phronesis 54 (2009) 297-325 perceptive analysis of the nature of rational motivation – an analysis that is
In this essay I will discuss four different classifications of justice that are proposed by Socrates’ interlocutors, Cephalus, Polemarchus, and Thrasymachus, as well as his rebuttal to each of their proclamations. A final section of this paper will be dedicated to how Polermachus’s outlook on justice, which is doing good to one’s friends and harm to one’s enemies, can most effectively be defended against Socrates’s response that it is unjust to harm anyone. This is because of Socrates’s inadequate dismissal of Polemarchus’s claim. Socrates offers an unclear definition of what causing harm is. Therefore, it can be presumed that specific types of harm such as constructive criticism and disciplinary punishment are deemed unjust when they actually can be efficient instruments in the formation of a just human being.
At the age of 18 he became an Athens citizen and had more rights. He learned from many great speakers of his time, but ultimately found that he had a way of thinking all his own. After becoming a teacher of many, Athens started to fear and hate Socrates for the thought that he was “Poisoning their children’s mind”. At the trial of the century the prosecutors, Meletus, Lycon, and Anytus faced Socrates. Socrates spoke to the jurors that he had done nothing wrong and that he leaves his fate in the Athens god and in the people of the jury.
Describe how the theories of Plato and Aristotle fit along this mind-body issue. Use supplemental material as well as your textbook and lecture notes to support your arguments. The mind-body problem is such that we have a brain (body) and a consciousness (mind) that are physical and non-physical. How do these physical and non-physical entities interact with each other? Are they related at all?
PHIL 201 LUO Essay 1 The idea and thought process that is incorporated to understanding reality and the existence of human life is quite detailed. Many important scholars, such as Plato and Socrates, have dedicated their lives to the study of human life and the world, along with gaining perceptual knowledge of such important topics like reality and the human soul. As Plato and Socrates discusses from a philosophical standpoint on life and reality, The Matrix also illustrates from a futuristic view of life, the incorporation of thought and realization of life and it’s meaning, while also illustrating various biblical examples from a God-to-man indication. The Matrix illustrates the realization that reality is a hoax and that life is only the work of computers, known as the Matrix. A computer hacker and programmer is given an opportunity to meet Morpheus, who represents a God-like figure in the movie.
Philosohy Falling through the Center of the Earth: The balancing act of injustice and justice From the early pages of Plato’s Republic Socrates and his companions are striving to find what can be considered ‘justice’. Socrates companions seam to all feel that to do injustice with out consequence is good for oneself. One after another, explanations as to what constitutes justice are raised and soon extinguished. However, it is only when Socrates expresses his view of justice in the city and in man do we see an explanation of justice being willingly practiced and inherently good. In order to simplify justice and prove that it is indeed better than injustice, Socrates moves from describing justice in the individual to the city.
Running Head: Aristotle-Ethical Analysis paper TO: FROM: DATE: SUBJECT: This paper was compiled with the basic motive of renouncing Aristotle’s literary contribution in the field of ethics. Aristotle, Plato’s student and a teacher to Alexander the Great (Aristotle, 2007, p.12), was a Greek philosopher with a wide and varied range of contributions in different fields and subjects. Some of his contributions covered the following areas of study: physics, logic, poetry, politics, ethics biology, theatre, linguistic, rhetoric, zoology and many more. He, together with Plato his teacher and Socrates are the three founding fathers of modern western philosophy. As much as his ideologies and Plato’s differed at some instances (Aristotle, 2007, p. 235), their combined contributions have been instrumental in shaping the modern day logic and scholarly works.