This staple of his beliefs is why he doesn't fear death, but in fact looks forward to it. By escaping he is committing an unjust act against the state, and committing unjust acts ruins the soul. With a ruined soul there is no point in living life as the soul is the only important thing, not the body. Therefore the most important thing is not only living life, but living a just life. While Socrates arguments may be sound in his opinion, I'm not sure if I agree with them.
Shame Analysis Dan M. Kahan argues in his piece “Shame Is worth a Try’ that shame should be used because “it’s an effective, cheap, and humane alternative to imprisonment” (574). If you are the kind of person who searches for articles with just emotional appeals, than look no further this is the article for you. When it comes to logical and ethnical appeals, Kahan falls short on the totem pole. He fails to prove his points because his examples are misused. He does not acknowledge that shaming sentences could also have effect on the offender’s family.
He then leads up to his main objection of this definition by means of stating that even though men and gods love that which they think is noble and good, and hate that which is opposite to those things, not everyone thinks this way about all things (Plato, 7). This being in the nature of things that are considered to be good by a group of people, can be hated by others, and this would also apply to the gods, for not everyone thinks the same. Socrates then uses a good example concerning the gods to better prove his reasons. He states that even though Euthyphro's decision to proceed against his own father may seem agreeable to Zeus, but not to Cronos or Uranus, and that there may be other gods who have these differences of opinions (7). Concerning
He kept sailing no matter what. He got tired and had to switch to sleep a little bit, but his sleep wasn’t for too long like the other guys. Most of the times the captain’s eyes were closed from how tired he was; meanwhile Billie was still wide awake. The correspondence was always switched with Billie, and Billie wouldn’t mind. The guys suffer for the thought of drowning.
Two of the premises he offers to show that death is not an evil are that “if death is an eternal, dreamless sleep, it is not an evil” and that “if death leads to an after life, it is not an evil. Socrates explains these premises based on his beliefs of death. He explains that he believes death is either two things; something in which you are in go into an endless, dreamless sleep, or it is an action in which your soul moves on to live in another place. He states that if death is an endless, dreamless sleep, that it come across as an unending moment of peace. In the other case, if death is one in which the soul travels to the afterlife, Socrates marvels at the amazing opportunity to be able to spend time with, interact, and learn from the great figures of the past of have who have already passed on to the afterlife, such as Odysseus and
“The Allegory of the Cave” and “Qualities of the Prince” (Authored by Plato and Machiavelli, respectively) have different viewpoints in contrast to one another. Looking at the texts, it seems that Machiavelli would be critical of the views Plato expressed in The Allegory of the Cave for a number of reasons. Plato states that people are inherently good, although good can be “seen only with an effort” (35). Machiavelli, on the flipped side, states that “for a man who strives after goodness in all his acts is sure to come to ruin, since there are so many men who are not good” (7), suggesting that most people are by nature not good, and that pursuing the act of being good, will only lead to disaster. Therefore, he would likely think that Plato’s ideology is too optimistic, if not ignorant, and that one must have a realist viewpoint to survive this world.
The wicked see punishment as a good thing because they have a chance to be corrected. Boethius finds this difficult, because he doesn’t understand how can God in his omnipotence allow this? Philosophy agrees that this is something that no one will be able
In the beginning of Book I, Socrates convinces Cephelus and Polemarchus that justice is not only doing good to friends and wrong to enemies nor is it only useful in certain aspects of life. Rather, justice is something that should be in every aspect of your life. But when Thracymachus questions this theory by saying justice only benefits some, Socrates (and Plato) is forced to clarify. He goes on to explain why justice is beneficial to every type of person. He explains that the strong can only be powerful when they make just choices, otherwise they will be overthrown by a united majority.
Many are against it because of religious and moral reasons and would argue that death is not the only solution in today’s society. Since medical technology nowadays has had incredible breakthrough in prolonging the lives of human beings. Machines can support a patient’s failing organs and medicines can sustain a patient’s physiological well-being. From a religious point of view, assisted death is equivalent to suicide, which is highly condemned and is regarded as a sin. They believe that “life is the most basic gift of loving God-a gift over which we have stewardship but not absolute dominion”.
| 2011 | | BROOKLANDS COLLEGE, WEYBRIDGEPatricia Orozco | Theories of Sleeping and Dreaming | A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb | Graph 1.Dreaming twice (Orozco,2011) Contents INTRODUCTION | 2 | BIOLOGICAL RHYTHMS | 2 | STAGES OF SLEEP GRAPH | 3 | EVOLUTIONARY AND RESTORATION THEORIES OF SLEEP | 4 | THEORIES OF DREAMING | 5 | CONCLUSION | 6 | REFERENCE | 6 | Sleeping and dreaming is a private experience, so no surprise that the first men had their own theories about sleep. One was that while the person sleeps his soul is separated from the body to meet the spirit of the night. Orthodox Jews regarded it as a kind of temporary death and thanked God for putting the heart back by morning. The ancient Greeks were the first who tried to explain it "scientifically."