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Truth, the 'Examined Life,' and Socrates

new ideas. The body supplies the means by which knowledge can be attained, for it is necessary, according to Plato, for things an...

Sickness Unto Death by Soren Kierkegaard

he sought to bring truth to others. Does Socrates Do Evil? From Kierkegaards position it is perhaps truth that all people do e...

Self Examination and the Method of Socrates

a person even know if those opinions are really yours or the opinions of others which you have adopted as your own without testing...

Philosophy and On Independent Thought Q and A

They are, instead, robot-like in that they do what they are told and do not question the validity of the teachings. Instead, peopl...

God’s Existence: Craig, Socrates, and Nietzsche

if they were not a part of society then it would be obvious that God did not exist. In relationship to what other philosophers fro...

Jacques-Louis David: “The Death of Socrates”

First, Socrates, who is obviously the focus of the painting, is sitting up, still teaching as shown by his raised left hand. Hes m...

Thelma Z. Levine's From Socrates to Sartre

time. And, he was not content to attempt to dispel theories of old, but was also one to attempt the disruption of more modern appr...

Hypothetical Debate Between Presidential Candidates Socrates and Henry David Thoreau

best and brightest citizens." After the candidates shake hands, the moderator presented the first topic for debate, that of taxat...

Chuang Tzu and Socrates on State Obedience versus Self Interest

own life? Not all philosophers would agree with the path he ultimately chose. First, it is important to keep in mind that practi...

Citizenship

and is not open to the charge of flattery" (Plato). While Socrates then discusses the love of youth, possibly referring to having ...

Choosing a Philosopher

quickly taking over the world, leaving no room for anything else" (Williams, Dustin and McKenney, 2004). In his view, we were leav...

Unpopularity, Societal Disapproval and a Socratic Dialogue

David: So you can be popular? Allen: Yeah. David: Why do you want to be popular Allen? I know everyone wants to be popular in h...

Serving the Gods According to Socrates

beings. Euthyphro would of course agree with that sentiment and oppose Socrates on this matter. The gods of course are powerful. W...

Phillips/Socrates Cafe

pundits or the mainstream media happen to be handing out at the moment. This is a process that rekindles a "child-like--but by no ...

Charles Peirce's Account Of Truth And Reality In "How To Make Our Ideas Clear"

perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception r...

Saint Thomas Aquinas and Socrates

teaching, in which he pretended not to know the answers to questions, so that students would come to understanding on their own. ...

Socrates and Immanuel Kant on Lying

was that all humans are born with an inherent worth which he labeled human dignity (Mazur, 1993). He further felt that human dign...

Jesus Christ, Socrates, and Sigmund Freud

As in most of his essays, Freud (1952), in Civilization and its Discontents, wrestles with human nature and why there is such a ch...

Parmenides Dialogue by Plato

that can be grasped with the human mind, but not with human senses (Gill, 1996,p. 1). The first part of the Parmenides, Plato has...

Athens, Duty, Pericles and Socrates

that Pericles was a man who felt a powerful sense of duty to his city. He was, after all, an official who stood as one who support...

Justice According to Socrates and Thrasymachus

but never the subjects. The result is that injustice lords it over those who are truly simple and truly just. Because the unjust...

Worthless 'Unexamined Life' According to Socrates

the two philosophers arose from the manifestation that Gorgias was forever attempting to read between the lines of what Socrates h...

The Republic and the Justice of Cephalus

Justice is the idea of focus in this paper that looks at The Republic. The dialog between Cephalus and Socrates is discussed in de...

Apology of Plato and Counterarguments

In six pages Socrates arguments, counterarguments and the great philosopher's defense techniques are examined. Four sources are c...

Philosophers on the Death Penalty

In ten pages capital punishment is examined in terms of ethical acceptability with an attempt to arrive at a consensus through a c...

Crito's Argument That Socrates Should Escape from Prison

In five pages this paper considers why Crito believes Socrates should attempt a prison escape instead of subject himself to capita...

Matthew Fox and Socrates

purposes, that they are omnipresent, and that they give signs to men of all that concerns them (X Memorabilia I, I, 19) (Beck ppg...

Guilt or Innocence of Socrates

In six pages this paper assesses whether or not Socrates was innocent or guilty of the crimes alleged by his accusers. Five sourc...

Similarities and Differences Between Ideology and Religion

In five pages this paper discusses ideology and religion in a consideration of similarities and differences with Karl Marx and Soc...

Gorgias by Plato, Justice and 'the Good Life'

In five pages this paper examines the dialogue between Socrates and Callicles regarding the arguments pertaining to happiness purs...