Socratic Approach To Socrates

In this paper, I will deconstruct and explain Socrates’ argument of that a person with justice in their lives is a person with happiness in their lives. Socrates argues about justice and its presence and how it works in the world, but I will only be talking about justice and its presence in people. He argues that justice the virtue that allows for people to live well and have happy lives though the relationship of justice, souls, functions, and virtues.

Gorgias invites Socrate to the party of an unknown person’s house to show off his knowledge and sees how much Socrate knows as Gorgias brags about how rhetoric is something he have a good knowledge of. Socrate may be prepared to battle against the rhetoric and finds a way to defeat Gorgias in the competition. Socrates first arrives late the competition in front of the crowd of people in the party to show his opponent his disrespect. Socrate blames his friend Chaerephon of being late to the party because he didn’t want others to know that he is doing it purposely. Before Gorgias shows up Socrates has a conversation with Gorgias’ student Callicles. Callicles claims that Gorgias can answer any questions are being asked. As Socrate finds a way

To add context to my response, I shall give a brief description of the Socratic method. According to the textbook, the Socratic method is “ a conversational method that proceeds by means of a series of questions and answers…” (Text). The goal of this method is to force the person being questioned to evaluate their originally inadequate responses and to work toward clearer answers brought on by thinking more deeply about what is being asked. This method allows a person to grow not by being given the answers, but by

In Plato’s Symposium, seven friends gather at a banquet to honor their comrade Agathon, who has just written his first successful tragedy. The men agree to entertain themselves through speeches rather than drunkenness. They dedicate these speeches to Eros, god of love, for whom no odes or hymns have been written. As in Plato’s other works, Socrates is one of the main characters featured throughout the dialogue. Plato is able to distinguish Socrates from his fellow comrades as an outsider, or someone who strays from social norms, by calling attention to Socrates’ unusual behavior. The content of Socrates’ speech, as well as his friends’ opinions of him, serve to further illustrate that Socrates is an outsider.

therefore, should comply with the laws of the state. Speaking for the laws, Socrates says the proof of his love for the state lies in the facts that he raised his children there, never left the city, did not show interest in visiting any other city states, and most importantly, shunned the idea of exile in exchange for his life during his trial, saying he would rather die than leave Athens. By these arguments, Socrates shows that from the state’s POV, he is a loyal citizen who has chosen to live under its rules and to disobey the rules which have been accepted and instilled in him since birth, would be changing his own belief system, to benefit him in a time of need.

In order to do this, he goes about Athens questioning those he believes to be wiser than him, including politicians, poets, and craftsmen. Upon this questioning, he discovers that even those perceived as the wisest actually know far less than one would expect. Even the craftsmen, who have much practical wisdom in their respective fields, see their success as merely a tribute to their vast knowledge of many subjects. This, Socrates claims, is not true wisdom. Human wisdom can be described as the acknowledgement and acceptance that one does not know everything, nor is one capable of knowing everything. This, however, does not mean that people should sit idly by, never pursuing wisdom, for it is still vital to the attainment of a good life, which should be the ultimate goal of mankind.

SOCRATES Socrates was a Greek philosopher who lived between 470-399 B.C. He turned Greek attention toward questions of ethics and virtue and away from those of the heavenly bodies. Socrates spent much time in the Agora (marketplace) where he held conversations with townspeople. Socrates believed that real truth could be found out through thought and collaboration with others. He was known for exposing ignorance, hypocrisy, and conceit. Despite having many followers, Socrates was disliked by most Athenians. At the age of 70, he was convicted of atheism, treason and corruption of the young. He was originally ordered to leave Athens, but chose to drink poison instead. This great man valued the law over his life, and so he chose to drank

Socrates; the founder of Western Philosophy, the first user of the Socratic method and Socratic irony, contributor to the field of ethics, and martyr for teaching what he thought was right. Indeed, Socrates is a household name, yet the picture many hold of Socrates may not be true to who Socrates actually was. Socrates considered himself a teacher and a thinker, not a writer, thus he wrote none of his teachings or thoughts down. As a consequence, the only surviving accounts of Socrates come second hand from his pupils, Plato and Xenophon, and from the playwright Aristophanes. However, it is difficult to tell how much of the Socrates depicted in the works of those men is embellishment or outright fabrication, and how much is truth. This problem, the Socratic Problem, has been troubling historians and philosophers for centuries, and will go on doing so. While the real Socrates may never be known, Socrates the character may be studied extensively through the works of his pupils. Plato’s Symposium depicts Socrates in an informal setting, getting drunk with friends, and offers an opportunity to see Socrates’ character and personality more clearly. While Symposium is set at a party, Socrates is still shown to be a larger-than-life, idealized character, who may have been too brilliant and perfect to be true.

The Socratic Method is based on the thought that ignorance is blind. He, Socrates, would approach various people claiming to be experts in a specific knowledge. He would then question them to discover how much they truly knew about the topic. In this story Socrates was outside the courthouse awaiting his trial. He was on trial for the corruption of the youth of Athens, and also impiety. While lingering outside the courthouse he encounters a man named Euthyphro. He was

Isn’t that the case, Meletos, both with horses and with all other animals?” (Plato, 512). In a nutshell, the Socratic Approach initiates with an allegory or question, expecting an answer which will lead Socrates to another question, and another, until finally any argument to the initial question is squashed and disproven,without finding an actual solution to the original question. This leaves listeners with an open ended question to find an answer for themselves based on personal knowledge and beliefs. “Socrates’ teaching method does not treat students as empty vessels to be filled with knowledge of facts, formulae and theorems. Rather, the teacher and students embark on a voyage of discovery. The teacher does not so much impart knowledge as elicit knowledge,” (Masud). Overall, his teaching method was a very introspective method that keeps great minds challenged to this day.

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

People used to work on the haciendas for food. However, they were hungry while working on the field, and did not receive their full money. At the end of 1912, people could not work on the haciendas because the arm troops burned and destroyed everything. In order to survive, Pedro Martinez mentioned that he and his neighbors went back to make lariats and plant tlacolol.

Socrates is a widely renowned teacher, who has taught and demonstrated a variety of lessons that regard how he views the world. Socrates has described his view on morality, purpose, death, and the ultimate. He has spoken about these views through multiple texts including The Last Days of Socrates and they have been interpreted through the text Socrates by George Rudebusch. Through these worldviews, Socrates has given people the opportunity to expand their wisdom and question the world around them.

Socrates had a unique way of teaching and expressing his thoughts and ideas. He taught by constantly posing questions with the assumption that any person could approach the truth through logic if he set aside ingrained prejudice and received knowledge (Hattersley 17,18). His dialectic method of questioning consisted of a subject being broken down by one or more people, in search of the same truth but with differing views. Instead of merely trying to convince listeners, Socrates would approach others by questioning what they felt to be true and therefore would be able to determine that person’s true feelings and the basis for those feelings. Socrates was open to receive knowledge wherever he could find it, yet when he approached people who claimed to be wise, he found they really knew nothing. He would challenge preconceived opinions, based on the words of others and fallacious logic. Many felt that he was attacking their identity and security causing them to resent Socrates when he pointed this out. Due to his search for truth, Socrates would, eventually, pay the ultimate price. Socrates teaches us to assume nothing and to question everything. In scientific study today, this is a fundamental element of scientific study, starting with a theory and afterward refining it to the point of when a decisive conclusion is made.

Plato wrote nearly 30 dialogues, most of which focused on his predecessor, Socrates. His earlier works focused on Socrates Theories, or the Socratic method, while his later works focused on his own laws and Xenophon 's Hiero. Some of Plato 's dialogues include the Meno, Symposium, Republic, and the Phaedo. The Socratic method is a form of inquiry and discussion between individuals based on asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking and to generate ideas. This paper is going to focus on a few of Plato 's earlier works and how they incorporate the Socratic method, versus his later works that seem to go in a different direction all together. First, it is important to understand that the Socratic method is a dialectical method that often involves discussion between people in which one person questions the defense of a point of view; many times the person defending his point of view may contradict himself, which gives the opposition a stronger defense. For example, Socrates would use a simple question to begin many of his teachings, such as “Is the pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the gods?” As an alternative example, are actions right, or wrong, based only on the authority 's approval of said actions? Socrates used this method many times to secure his point of view. Although Socrates wrote nothing down, therefore not allowing us to truly study his point of views or his teachings, we can assume that most of