Lauren Castaner Communication A02 28 September 2012 Phaedrus A Book About Communicating an Argument Phaedrus by Plato starts with a meeting between Socrates and Phaedrus in Athens. They are discussing a speech Phaedrus heard earlier that morning and copied down. Phaedrus then goes on to repeat the speech to Socrates, who criticizes it in response stating that there is not enough content and that better speeches were probably made elsewhere. This is the starting point of the argument about the difference between good speeches vs. bad speech and the oral word vs. the written word. This discussion of rhetoric and writing was such a significant contribution to the topic that it is still being taught today.
For sake of clarity I shall utilise the concepts of each in their respective sections. In the comparison and conclusion I shall continue this distinction and use the terminology of each. Hume: The Naturalistic Approach and the Problem of Induction Living and working in the years 1711-1776 David Hume was born into a climate of reason, the Age of the Enlightenment. As a man who has been called a genius by both his contemporaries and his after-comers, Hume excelled as a philosopher and as an agent of the ideals that ruled his time. Inspired by other such luminaries as Newton, Boyle, Locke and Hobbes, Hume sought to renew philosophy into a form more fitted to an age of reason and scientific enquiry.
Plato: The Republic and Euthyphro Dilemma These three past weeks I have learned about Plato and his dialogues, one of them is the Euthyphro dilemma. In his dilemma he tries to discover the nature piety. The answer that Euthyphro gives is that what is good is what is loved by the gods. Here we can see a contradiction that Socrates points out which is that some gods love and hate the same things at the same time. This would turn morality into something subjective.
In our text book it said that “Raphael depicted these luminaries, revered by Renaissance humanists, conversing and explaining their various theories and ideas”(Kleiner 464). While reading an article it was saying “In the School of Athens by Raphael, they seem to be debating their various philosophies in the search for truth. Centered in the composition and striding through a series of illustionistic arches are the philosophers Plato and Aristotle engaged in a lively dialogue on the source of wisdom or truth. Plato, Aristotle's teacher, points to the sky, arguing that wisdom comes from above, divinely inspired. Aristotle motions to the earth indicating that wisdom comes from empirical observation” (http://www.finearttouch.com/The_School_of_Athens_by_Raphael.html).
Early Greek philosophy, in turn, was influenced by the older wisdom literature and myths of the Near East. As M.L. West points out: "contact with oriental cosmology and theology helped to liberate the early Greek philosophers' imagination; it certainly gave them many suggestive ideas. But they taught themselves to reason. Philosophy as we understand it is a Greek creation," (Griffin, 2001).
Paul Starita Pol Sci 201 10/26/12 Examining Justice and Education In The Apology, Socrates defends himself in a court of law after being accused of creating new deities and corrupting the youth. In this text, we find subtle opinions and explanations about the nature of justice. The Republic is a text written by Plato, where Socrates and several of his students deeply explore justice and how an ideal society might look. Especially present in The Republic, both texts have undertones of how education ought to be and why it is so important. These two texts define justice as an important virtue that every person should learn to possess through a balanced, self-discovering education.
These Greek philosophers used observation and reason to answer life's questions. Their works in philosophy gave them the title "lovers of wisdom." One of these philosophers, who was the first and considered greatest, was Socrates. Socrates was born in 469 B.C. in Athens, Greece.
1. Introduction When it comes to the world of philosophy, one knows to look at the foundations set about by the philosophers of Ancient Greece. It was their work and their theories that has significantly shaped and influenced what we today know as Western philosophy. This essay will focus on one particular branch of philosophy, namely epistemology i.e. the theory of knowledge, and attempt to discuss the development of different theories of philosophers ranging from pre-Socratic to post-Aristotelian Ancient Greece.
Christina Politis Mr. Lambropolous HZT4U1 Sunday, April 10, 2011 The Ideological Shift From Metaphysics to Ethics Like most things in life, philosophy been evolving throughout history. One of the original, well-recognized philosophers was Plato who was mostly concerned with the metaphysical. His beliefs extended beyond the perceivable world. At one point in time, Plato’s philosophy was the standard viewpoint of society. However, as philosophies such as Epicureanism started to develop, the opinions of society were revolutionized.
The classical theory is a product of the Enlightenment period which is a period of history spanning roughly from 1517 to 1789. The Enlightenment period, or Age of Reason period, was charachterized by a direct intellectual challenge to the theological worldview. This challenge to the theological view was brought about by Enlightenment thinkers who promoted a more scientific view. Most Enlightenment thinkers drew many of their ideas from the Greek or Classical philosophers such as Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. These classical thinkers derove their reasonning from personnal observations.