How Does Socrate's Opinion That Nobody Want To Do The Morally Right Thing

In Plato’s Meno, Socrates and Meno attempt to answer the question, ‘What is virtue?’ Through this discussion, Meno is lead to question whether they are even able to arrive at an answer, presenting us with the paradox of inquiry, ‘And how will you enquire, Socrates, into that which you do not know? What will you put forth as a subject of enquiry? And if you find what you want, how will you ever know that this is the thing which you did not know?’ (Meno 80d). Meno’s paradox states that one cannot gain knowledge through enquiry.

Socrates makes it quite evident through the severity of the language in this claim, the extent to which he will live and die for this ideal. He did not merely say that the unexamined life was not a noble existence or that it was the path of the less righteous, rather the unexamined life is just not worth living at all. Theoretically, according to his

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c. P) Since the good, according to Plato, is that which furthers a person’s real interests, it follows that in any given case when the good is known, men will seek it.

In this essay I will show that Socrates answer to Meno 's paradox was unsuccessful. First, I will explain what Meno 's paradox is and how the question of what virtue is was raised. Second, I will explain Socrates attempt to answer the paradox with his theory of recollection and how he believes the soul is immortal. Third, I will provide an argument for why his response was unsuccessful. This will involve looking at empirical questions, rather than non-empirical questions and how Socrates theory of recollection fails in this case. Next, I will provide an argument for why his response was successful. This will involve his interview with the slave boy and how the slave boy is able to provide the correct answers to Socrates questions. Lastly, I will explain why Socrates ' interview with the slave boy does not actually successfully prove his theory of recollection by examining how Socrates phrases his questions.

In Plato’s “Apology” and “Crito”, I believe Socrates’ philosophy of not doing harmful things on purpose, because of ignorance, or the act of doing it unwillingly, is false. First I will show you some contradictions introduced in the books of the Apology, and Crito and explain them. Next, I will explain how in the present day Socrates philosophy is false due to the vices of mankind, with evidence from the Apology, then I will show you how Socrates might argue his point and a counter argument in present day, and finally I will conclude that Socrates’ philosophy is an incorrect philosophy and has many holes within it.

This assumption reflects a folly in Meno’s logic because his inquiry was into a single definition of excellence. Socrates ironically guides Meno by generating questions that relate to excellence as a universally consistent value. Socrates inquires if “bees [are] all no different from one another, but the same?” (Meno, pg 100, ln 72b). By answering “yes”, Meno perpetuates Socrates’ use of irony. Socrates knows the definition of excellence, but he is going to make Meno arrive at a resolution by himself. Socrates coerces Meno to agree that a bee colony is defined by a universally consistent definition of excellence. Socrates continues his deliberate inquiry by asking Meno “do you think health is different in a man and a woman?” (Meno, pg 100, ln 72e). Once again, Meno considers Socrates’ inquiry and concludes that health must be equal for all human beings. Socratic irony compels the student to examine an argument and consider its validity. Meno agrees with Socrates that formerly individual entities, like human health and bees, can be defined by the same confines. Therefore, a distinct entity, like excellence in human beings, can be defined by a consistent and universal definition. Excellence can be defined under a single proof applicable to all human characteristics because human health is not differentiable. As a result a result of Socratic irony, Meno should abandon distinct definitions of excellence and consider a universal definition. Socratic irony forces Meno to

The thought here is that people only act justly out of a threat of punishment. Plato believes that no man wishes to do good. He believes that if a man is allowed to do bad or good without any punishment, he will always choose to do bad because bad feelings are more pleasurable. In thinking about this myth, I do agree with it. Examples are people committing crimes or politicians who are in power, rather than thinking of the consequences, they are going with the initial pleasurable feeling and worrying about consequences only after they are caught. This is reasonable, but there are also counter examples such as

To illustrate this theory Socrates asks Meno to call over one of his slaves and he presents him with a geometrical problem. Socrates shows that without teaching him, but through a series of questions he can enable the slave, who had never been taught geometry before in his life, to solve the problem.

In Euthyphro, he shows that he is a teacher by teaching Euthyphro what is holy. Euthyphro thought he knew what holy is, but Socrates proves that he is wrong and teaches him what really is holy. Socrates teaches Crito what just really is in Crito. This is another case of somebody thinking they know what something is and Socrates ends up teaching them that they didn’t actually know what they were talking about. Meno is a bit different than the first two. In Meno, Meno asks Socrates a question about virtue whereas in the other two Socrates was teaching something that Euthyphro and Crito thought they knew. Meno is taught that you can’t know if virtue can be taught until you have some understanding of what virtue itself is. Meno had no understanding of what virtue was or if it could be taught, but Socrates gave him a basic understanding of what virtue is and that it can’t be taught. Socrates told people things things they didn’t know, and he showed them things they never saw. Socrates was definitely a

Mankind must by this time have acquired positive beliefs as to the effects of some actions on their happiness; and the beliefs which have thus come down are the rules of morality for the multitude, and for the philosopher until he has succeeded in finding better. That philosophers might easily do this, even now, on many subjects; that the received code of ethics is by no means of divine right;

Saint Augustine wrote of the joy and delight he found in his corruptive actions as a youth. “Not even a rich thief will pardon one who steals from him because of want. But I willed to commit theft, and I did so, not because I was driven to it by any need … nor did I wish to enjoy that thing which I desired to gain by theft, but rather to enjoy the actual theft and the sin of theft” (Confessions, Book 2, Chapter 4). Saint Augustine reviewed the course of action, but made the resolution to commit sin anyways. Saint Augustine reviewed his course of action with full knowledge of what is right and wrong, but made the decision to knowingly do wrong and bring harm to others. Therefore, his akratic behavior proves Socrates’ notion of “no one goes willingly toward the bad” to be

Socrates might be a wise philosopher but one of his ideas strikes me as particularly naive. In the allegory of the cave, he tells Glaucon that "in the world of knowledge the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with an effort [·] and that this is the power upon which he [the intellectual] would act rationally" (517b-c). In other words, he seems to be implying that knowledge of goodness is a sufficient condition for being good. A person who has seen what goodness is will henceforth act in a way that is good. Is this belief justified? For instance, we sometimes do things that we know are not good but we do them nonetheless and feel guilty after that. If, as such cases

Socrates was considered by many to be the wisest man in ancient Greece. While he was eventually condemned for his wisdom, his spoken words are still listened to and followed today. When, during his trial, Socrates stated that, “the unexamined life is not worth living” (Plato 45), people began to question his theory. They began to wonder what Socrates meant with his statement, why he would feel that a life would not be worth living. To them, life was above all else, and choosing to give up life would be out of the picture. They did not understand how one would choose not to live life just because he would be unable to examine it.

“So a self-indulgent person really thinks that his action are for the best or at least the person thinks so when he is performing them” (Thomson 86). Socrates philosophical ideas caused him to be sent to jail, and