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In six pages this paper analyzes the contention of Socrates that an 'unexamined life is not worth living' as this view is represen...

background, the points which Gray (2001) makes are surprising to say the least. Gray (2001) sees the war we as a society are wagi...

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

words, "how does one KNOW that this is the truth". Most of Socrates teaching took place on the steps of a Lyceum, much like an a...

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

also wrote that one could live justly only if they lived in a just society (Beck, n.d.). Plato had a number of caveats about a jus...

interlocutor" which is consistent with the importance he places on self-knowledge as a way to attain good and happiness. Callicles...

Although biblical, the story provides a warning in that perhaps a little knowledge can be harmful. Another point of view is that k...

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

millennia worth of philosophical comprehension of mans existence. For those who depend upon traditional practice to shepherd them...

of fire (The New York Times, 2008). He lived during the late fifth century BC (The New York Times, 2008). The Eleatic school for i...

student sees in relationship to what the image can present: "but of the ideas which they resemble; not of the figures which they d...

ghost, a phantom-true, but no real breath of life" (23.122-23). This minimal survival apparently depends on the appropriate funera...

manifestation that Gorgias was forever attempting to read between the lines of what Socrates had to say, perpetually wondering if ...

childhood, during his early life, Socrates was a sculptor, following in the footsteps of his father, Sophroniscus (Wikpedia, 2003)...

are afraid because ignorant, and perceive the pain and not the benefits; nor do they apprehend that a sick soul is worse than a si...

why so many people had to suffer. No matter the cause, the gods were not looked on with the reverence they had once enjoyed, and t...

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

very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...

knew nothing and was far from wise, he sets upon a course of action to find someone wiser than himself to offer to the Oracle as r...

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 ...

distance. In some way one can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees ...

cast them as slaves of the elite. This action of stripping an individuals inherent rights as a human being can be nothing other t...

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

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...

could be products of society, but never the causes, or it would alter the objectivity of sociology as a science (Hamilton, 1995). ...

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

This five pages this paper examines how authority was challenged by Socrates, Antigone, and Jesus Christ and how each suffered tra...

This ten page paper explores the criticism Greek writers and philosophers such as Euripedes, Socrates, and Aeschylus had for the A...

another thing: ? young men of the richer classes, who have not much to do, come about me of their own accord; they like to hear th...