Why Socrates Refuse of Escape from Prison? Philosophical viewpoints can be problematic. This ancient Greek philosopher conviction to die was an inexcusable waste of an invaluable thinker for the humanity; and those feeling get even worse when I realize, as per ones understanding, he was a victim of such unfair incomprehensible circumstances. Therefore, throughout the portrait of his friends, colleges and students, Socrates leaves societies a great contribution to the field of ethics, political, civil, moral, and so on. To be able survive the pass of the times and even contribute to society thought the memories of other, Socrates –and any other that may accomplish this, I should say- have to be an outstanding human being.
Aristotle claims that most people would agree that happiness is the end and that it must meet all the requirements. We know that we desire honor, money, pleasure and understanding only because we think that this will make us happy. So it seems that all good means are done for the sake of obtaining happiness. Aristotle says that happiness makes a person self-sufficient. He is not saying to live an isolated life but to be self-sufficient within a community.
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and was passionate about the virtue ethics, as were a lot of the early philosophers in Greece. He was a student of Plato and wrote on a variety of topics. “Aristotle set the tone of the virtue ethics approach with his observation that in exploring the moral dimension of experience, he said we are discussing no small matter, but how we ought to live. A sentiment that echoed Socrates’ commitment to moral action.” (Chaffee, 2013, p. 482). Aristotle believed virtue ethics was the cultivation of a virtuous person to be the goal of ethics.
Socrates was genuinely worried about why the young men were so disappointing. Socrates' young students had been a particular disappointment to him. If Socrates could figure out exactly how the fathers had failed to properly educate their sons, he could save the city and restore Athens to its former glory. Socrates’ interesting idea was that human excellence was really a kind of knowledge. Sophists were skilled in elaborate argumentation; were they would try and make the argument they were focusing on the stronger side, even if it was wrong or weaker.
Socrates and Machiavelli are two of the most historic figures in the world. They both taught mankind the secrets of society behaviors. They both had different philosophy of how people in society should act, think and behave. Ethics and morale are seen differently between the two. Socrates believed that people should evaluate their lives and become ethically responsible.
Socrates Account of Erotic Love In Plato’s Symposium many different philosophers discuss there views on erotic love but mostly all of them have one major point in which they all agree. This major point is that they all agree that Love is a god. They all have different reasonings about how they feel love is good and bad and this and that but Socrates on the other hand seems to be above all of this and has a greater understanding of what love truly is. He goes into explaining the more in detailed love, talks of how love is something much other than a god. “Don’t force whatever is not beautiful to be ugly, or whatever is not good to be bad.
Imitation was the lowest thing you could do and doing so is committing suicide. There is always a “better side” of a man, although he may not see it because it is hindered by jealousy. The Transcendental Movement held a strong opinion that one should have complete faith in oneself. Emerson, being a passionate transcendentalist, believed in this philosophy. He supported this concept that we should rely on our own intuition and beliefs.
More precisely, one can think of Kant’s categorical imperative as the equivalent of the superego in Freud’s account. Kantian morality becomes the fundamental reason for man’s unhappiness, since there is no way of satisfying even a portion of man’s natural desires in such a moral philosophy. However, Freud’s criticism of an uncompromising set of morals like Kant’s does not mean that Freud is absolutely against morality. In fact, Freud recognizes the importance of morality and society insofar as they make man’s survival less painful and to the extent that they minimally conflict with man’s
Jean-Paul Sartre and Peter Singer, Thinkers? Jean-Paul Sartre and Peter Singer, Creative Thinkers? xxxxxx PHL/458 Abstract How does one become, "The most influential living philosopher" and "the most dangerous man in the world." Finding meaning in freedom requires individuals to continue define their essence in response to the conditions of their existence. A tension arises between defining one's essence in relation to one's existence which is already an unstable concept due to the nature of self-reflection and subsequently defining one's essence in relation to the existence of others.
Hadot investigates the Socratic notion that virtue is knowledge and that an examination of your soul is necessary to become a ‘good’ man and live in a moral way. This analysis will investigate the many ‘masks’ of Socrates, through Plato, Kierkegaard and the ancient playwright Aristophanes and ask whether the examined life is truly the only way to live or whether this wisdom is beyond our human understanding and perhaps even our nature. Socrates is an illusive philosopher; a wandering hermit of ancient Athens who made philosophy and the true love of wisdom a personal life quest. He is also a figure we have such little factual evidence on it is difficult to argue who he really was and what he represented. This is ironic; as for many people Socrates has become a revered character both in his time and ours.