Socrates

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Through several dialogues Plato gives readers accounts of Socrates’ interactions with other Athenians. While some may think of him as a teacher of sorts, Socrates is adamant in rejecting any such claim (Plato, Apology 33a-b). He insists that he is not a teacher because he is not transferring any knowledge from himself to others, but rather assisting those he interacts with in reaching the truth. This assistance is the reason Socrates walks around Athens, engaging in conversation with anyone that he can convince to converse with him. An assertion he makes at his trial in Plato’s Apology is at the center of what drives Socrates in his abnormal ways, “the unexamined life is not worth living for a human being” (38a). Socrates, through aporia, looks to lead an examined life to perfect his soul and live as the best person he can be. This paper looks to examine the ‘unexamined life’ and the implications rooted in living a life like Socrates’.

The problem with Socrates concerns the problem with the role of value and reason. Nietzsche believes that the bulk of philosophers claim that life is a corrupt grievance for mankind. Nietzsche reasoned that these life deniers were decadents of Hellenism, as a symptom of some underlying melancholy. For someone to paint life in such a negative light they must have suffered a great deal through the course of their own life. Furthermore, these no-sayers agreed in various physiological ways and thus adopted the same pessimistic attitudes towards life. Socrates was ugly, alike decadent criminals and by ways of these similarities was decadent as well. Nietzsche also claims ugliness as a physiological symptom of life in its decline supported by studies in phenology.

Finally i will have to tell you who is this man you are falsely accusing today. Even though we all, men of Athens, hates Socrates’s way of seeing and doing things and the way he embarrassed our greatest men of Athens in public. But the past had proven to us that he is a good wise man that rarely been mistaken in term of what was good for Athens. Moreover, one event that we cant forget is the trail of the 8 Generals where he oppose the exception of the 8 men. Even though he was threaten to take the same fate as theirs. Athenian thought he was crazy back then and ordered to execute the 6 Generals they have at hand and the same fate awaits for those who fled. However, few years later Athens needed as much strong men as they can get so they dropped

Things are not always what they seem. The Republican Party has now captured the House of Representatives and the Senate. Many were not surprised, as history has shown that when a president has low approval ratings, the opposing political party usually gains seats in Congress. The Republicans’ main argument was the failure of the Affordable Care Act. The platform was that they would work on their constituents’ behalf to repeal the health care law. However, it has been shown that the health care law is working, providing health insurance for many who previously did not have any health insurance. How did the Republicans convince their constituents to believe the contrary? Plato would argue that the Republicans are truly the masters of rhetoric.

In 469 B.C. a man by the name of Socrates was born. Socrates was a very wise man that cared about doing the right thing. He believed that the best ways to develop ideas was in the give and take of conversation, and that the best way to educate people was to ask them a series of questions leading in a particular direction (now named “Socrates method). Socrates had been quick to identify the drawbacks of democracy, and he had also been the teacher of two men who in different ways harmed Athens: Alcibiades and Critias. Which made the parents of the children that Socrates had taught very upset and angry. Granting all this, it lead to the Trial of Socrates 399 B.C. During this trial Socrates expressed his view of death by using his question-and-answer method, for which he was famous for and what seemed to have gotten him in trouble. Socrates did not write so we have to depend on on what others wrote, and by doing that we now get to see the diverse ways people read and understand what was written about his speech. My chosen primary source, Socrates View on Death, is important, because it gives one view of Socrates speech while my outside source, Ancient Greece, gives a slightly more in depth view.

In Plato’s Apology Socrates is being tried by Anytus and Meletus for two new charges: “corrupting the young, and not acknowledging the gods of the city acknowledges, but new daimonic activities instead” (Morgan 2005, 51). Throughout Plato’s Apology and Euthyphro Socrates uses complex rhetoric to challenge the charges brought against him based on his thoughts and understanding of what is right and wrong. He never once states he is not guilty nor does he provide reasons to support his innocence. He suggests rather that he is on a divine mission stating “this is what the god orders me to do, and I think there is no greater blessing for the city than my service to the god” (Morgan 2005, 55). Socrates uses his trial as an opportunity to show

Socrates expressed many beliefs that opposed the commonly held beliefs of many of the elite members of Athenian society. For instance, he believed in divine power—that gods could use their powers to affect life on Earth—but he did not believe in many of the gods that most Greeks believed in. For Socrates, focusing on what is moral, or right, and on how people should best lead their lives was more important than focusing on what the gods wanted. In addition, he emphasized the search for knowledge related to important moral issues, such as justice. Because of this, he often questioned people about their beliefs and criticized the democratic system of Athens

In Book II of the Plato’s Republic, Glaucon and Adeimantus challenge Socrates’ claim that justice belongs in the class of goods which are valued for their own sake as well as for the sake of what comes from them (Rep. 357 b- 358 a). Unconvinced by Socrates’ refutation of Thrasymachus, Glaucon renews Thrasymachus’ argument that the life of the unjust person is better than that of the just person. As part of his case, Glaucon states what he claims most people consider the nature of justice to be and what its origins are. He proceeds to present a version of the social contract theory:

Even though the conception that Socrates corrupted the youth and posed a threat to society was a factor, the most direct reason why Socrates was executed was his method to question wise Athenians. The Socratic method iniciated the corruption of youth by young men who tried to imitate Socrates and as a result, posed a threat to society since the next generation may not follow traditional Athenian rules.

Socrates spent his time questioning people about things like virtue, justice, piety and truth. The people Socrates questioned are the people that condemned him to death. Socrates was sentenced to death because people did not like him and they wanted to shut him up for good. There was not any real evidence against Socrates to prove the accusations against him. Socrates was condemned for three major reasons: he told important people exactly what he thought of them, he questioned ideas that had long been the norm, the youth copied his style of questioning for fun, making Athenians think Socrates was teaching the youth to be rebellious. But these reasons were not the charges against him, he was charged with being an atheist and

Plato, a Greek philosopher, talks about a mythical place just beyond the "Pillars of Hercules". He said it was advanced far beyond anything else, and was protected by Poseidon. The atlanteans conquered the got pushed back from a rebellion. As a punishment they got hit with floods and earthquakes and sunk beneath the sea. But 300 years ago an Egyptian priest heard the story. The story happened 9,000 years ago.

Morality begins to be portrayed in a different light as the Greek culture progresses. Earlier in their works, to be ethical is defined as to follow the wishes of the gods or goddesses. This, however, had the tendency to lead to complications. As Socrates noted, “the gods are in a state of discord… they are at enmity with each other,” and this results in an inconsistency in what could be deemed moral (Plato 8). If the gods cannot come to an agreement, how can an action be judged to be right or wrong? Socrates contemplated this dilemma and his answer to it is the theory of an inner conscience, often referred to as his “divine sign” (Plato 36). He explained it as an advisory voice: it does not tell him what to do, but it warns him against doing certain actions that could be considered wrong (Plato 36). His thoughts on this topic were then circulated. Given the nature of Socrates’ occupation, I would argue that Euripides was influenced by Socrates’ notion of this inner consciousness. Euripides wrote his play Iphigeneia at Aulis in 405 BCE, which is within Socrates’ timeframe for his quest

The path to the Good is a blinding process of suffering, one which everyone must experience if he wishes to see justice in society. In Plato’s Republic, Socrates is unsympathetic to modern sentiment, knowing that justice can only be brought about in this manner and not through the fluctuating forms of ineffective governments that have plagued history. To him, the existence of a just city does not matter, because the true philosopher, the just man, can find the Good even under the tyrant. Further, if there is any hope to be had for the turning of one’s soul to the light, the philosopher must live “under the tyrant’s roof” (Book IX, p. 267, 577a-b). While aristocracy might be far from the grasp of society, both in ancient Athens and in modern

Socrates was accused of many things in the Athens market. Socrates was accused of being a man who makes the worse argument into the stronger argument. A man who knows about the heavens and earth and therefore any one who believe this must not believe in the gods. Socrates was accused of being an atheist. Most of the people that followed him around his quest were inquisitive. Where as most adults would walk by Socrates with his “annoying question” the youth stopped to see what he had to say. The youth became his followers when he went out to ask questions that undermined society. Therefore, Socrates was accused of corrupting the youth. I do not believe that Socrates was guilty. For the fact that he was not responsible for