As a result, they clung to past glories, notions of wealth and a fixation on physical beauty. Socrates attacked these values with his insistent emphasis on the greater importance of the mind. While many Athenians admired Socrates' challenges to Greek conventional wisdom and the humorous way he went about it, an equal number grew angry and felt he threatened their way of life and uncertain future.
In B. He chose to defend himself in court. Rather than present himself as wrongly accused, Socrates declared he fulfilled an important role as a gadfly, one who provides an important service to his community by continually questioning and challenging the status quo and its defenders.
The jury was not swayed by Socrates' defense and convicted him by a vote of to Possibly the defiant tone of his defense contributed to the verdict and he made things worse during the deliberation over his punishment. Athenian law allowed a convicted citizen to propose an alternative punishment to the one called for by the prosecution and the jury would decide. Instead of proposing he be exiled, Socrates suggested he be honored by the city for his contribution to their enlightenment and be paid for his services.
Before Socrates' execution, friends offered to bribe the guards and rescue him so he could flee into exile. He declined, stating he wasn't afraid of death, felt he would be no better off if in exile and said he was still a loyal citizen of Athens, willing to abide by its laws, even the ones that condemned him to death.
Plato described Socrates' execution in his Phaedo dialogue: Socrates drank the hemlock mixture without hesitation. Numbness slowly crept into his body until it reached his heart. Shortly before his final breath, Socrates described his death as a release of the soul from the body. We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us!
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How can you as a person benefit from philosophy? What is the nature of this? Are these reasons good enough? Would it stand up in court? What does the oracle say about Socrates? What is Socrates saying in the apology? Specifically, the Apology of Socrates is a defence against the charges of "corrupting the youth" and "not believing in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other daimonia that are novel" to Athens 24b.
What are some examples of wisdom? Wisdom is the ability to know what is true or right, common sense or the collection of one's knowledge. An example of wisdom is the quote "The best mind altering drug is truth. What is the main idea of Socrates? It is argued that Socrates believed "ideals belong in a world only the wise man can understand", making the philosopher the only type of person suitable to govern others.
In Plato's dialogue the Republic, Socrates openly objected to the democracy that ran Athens during his adult life. What does Socrates mean by knowledge is virtue? According to Socrates , virtue is knowledge , because: 1 all living things aim for their perceived good; and therefore 2 if anyone does not know what is good, he cannot do what is good -- because he will always aim for a mistaken target; but 3 if someone knows what is good, he will do what is good, because he will.
What is Plato's definition of knowledge? In philosophy, the study of knowledge is called epistemology; the philosopher Plato famously defined knowledge as "justified true belief", though this definition is now thought by some analytic philosophers to be problematic because of the Gettier problems, while others defend the platonic definition.
What is Aristotle's definition of wisdom? The most important single source is the satire by Aristophanes in his comedy the Clouds , produced in and followed by a second edition some years later where the poet tells us II. How far can a comedian go? There is much to address here about the likely independent view of Aristophanes, such as whether we consider him true disciple of Socrates or not.
But clearly Aristophanes was writing for an audience that were not disciples of Socrates. So we can infer some degree of independence in his account. Plato and Xenophon have much in common.
They both knew Socrates personally Xenophon [Mem. III 6. Plato himself, as we have seen, is naturally regarded as our main source for Socrates, though only in his earliest dialogues. This does not, however, mean that nothing in the later dialogues can be used. Finally we come to Aristotle , our only substantial later source.
Barring pure invention, whatever Aristotle tells us about Socrates must come from further sources , and his value to us depends on what these sources were, and on how reliably, and so with what purpose, he used them.
If he had only the sources that we also have ourselves his value would be only that of a highly intelligent modern colleague; his opinion would be just one among others. But this does not follow if it turns out simply that everything he tells us can be traced to some otherwise available source.
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