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...Plato's account of Socrates' defense at his trial for corrupting the youth is a classic summation of his teacher's life and mission, centered in Socrates' most famous line, The unexamined life is not worth living. - Written by FrZeile...

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...The Apology is Plato's version of the speech delivered by Socrates before the Athenian people in his defence agaist charges of impiety and of misleading others, which ended in his condemnation and death in 399 BC. It is the earliest and most eloquent expression of what has been term...

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...Plato's Phaedo is one of the great dialogues of his middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium. The Phaedo, which depicts the death of Socrates, is also Plato's seventh and last dialogue to detail the philosopher's final days (the first six being Theaetetus, Euthyphro, Sophist, Statesman, Apology, and Crito). In the dialogue, Socrates discusses the nature of...

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...Introduction: In the MENO, Anytus had parted from Socrates with the significant words: ?That in any city, and particularly in the city of Athens, it is easier to do men harm than to do them good;? and Socrates was anticipating another opportunity of talking with him. In the ...

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...lated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION. IN THE M ENO, Anytus had parted from Socrates with the significant words: ‘That in any city , and par ticular... ...n the city of Athens, it is easier to do men harm than to do them good;’ and Socrates was anticipating another opportunity of talking with him. In the... ... was anticipating another opportunity of talking with him. In the Euthyphro, Socrates is awaiting his trial for impiety . But before the trial begins,... ...eir trial, and convince them of ignorance in that very matter touching which Socrates is accused. An incident which may perhaps really have occurred i... ... sooth sayer , furnishes the occasion of the discussion. This Euthyphro and Socrates are represented as meeting in the porch of the King Archon. (Com... ...ch of the King Archon. (Com pare Theaet.) Both have legal business in hand. Socrates is defendant in a suit for impiety which Meletus has brought aga... ...e origin of the charge of murder which Euthyphro brings against his father . Socrates is con fident that before he could have undertaken the responsi... ...of murder; doing as the gods do—as Zeus did to Cronos, and Cronos to Uranus. Socrates has a dislike to these tales of mythol ogy , and he fancies tha... ...ty. ‘Are they really true?’ ‘Y es, they are;’ and Euthyphro will gladly tell Socrates some more of them. But Socrates would like first of all to have ...

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...Excerpt: Persons of the dialogue: Socrates, Hermogenes, Cratylus. Hermogenes: Suppose that we make Socrates a party to the argument? Cratylus: If you please. Hermogenes: I should explain to you, Socrates, that our friend Cratylus has been arguing about names;...

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... 3 CRATYLUS by Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, Hermogenes, Cratylus. HERMOGENES: Suppose that we make Socrates... ... the argument? CRATYLUS: If you please. HERMOGENES: I should explain to you, Socrates, that our friend Cratylus has been arguing about names; he says ... ...er his own name of Cratylus is a true name or not, and he answers ‘Yes.’ And Socrates? ‘Yes.’ Then every man’s name, as I tell him, is that which he i... ...ll, and could entirely convince me, if he chose to be intelligible. Tell me, Socrates, what this oracle means; or rather tell me, if you will be so go... ...wn view of the truth or correctness of names, which I would far sooner hear. SOCRATES: Son of Hipponicus, there is an ancient say ing, that ‘hard is ... ...mistaken I shall be happy to hear and learn of Cratylus, or of any one else. SOCRATES: I dare say that you may be right, Hermogenes: let us see;—Your ... ...is only that which anybody agrees to call it? HERMOGENES: That is my notion. SOCRATES: Whether the giver of the name be an indi vidual or a city? HER... ...Whether the giver of the name be an indi vidual or a city? HERMOGENES: Yes. SOCRATES: Well, now, let me take an instance;—sup pose that I call a man... ...the world:—that is your meaning? HERMOGENES: He would, according to my view. SOCRATES: But how about truth, then? you would ac knowledge that there i...

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...In Plato's ION, Socrates questions Ion, whether he should really claim laud and glory for his 'rhapsodic' recitals of Homer's poetry. —Description by Simon-Peter Zak...

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...Awaiting his trial on charges of impiety and heresy, Socrates encounters Euthyphro, a self-proclaimed authority on matters of piety and the will of the gods. Socrates, desiring instruction in these matters, converses with Euthyphro, but as usual, the man who professes to know n...

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...This dialogue brings Socrates face to face with the famous sophist Gorgias and his followers. It is a work likely completed around the time of Republic and illuminates many of the spiritual ideas of Plato. The spirituality, as Jowett points out i...

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...The Apology of Socrates is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully defended himself in 399 BC against the charges of corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other...

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...Excerpt: Introduction to Crito. The ?Crito? seems intended to exhibit the character of Socrates in one light only, not as the philosopher, fulfilling a divine mission and trusting in the will of Heaven, but simply as the good citizen, who having been unjustly condemned is willing to give up his life in obedienc...

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...by Benjamin Jowett) The “Crito” seems intended to exhibit the character of Socrates in one light only, not as the philosopher, fulfilling a divine m... ...ng to give up his life in obedience to the laws of the State. The days of Socrates are drawing to a close; the fatal ship 1 has been seen off Suniu... ...will have no diffi culty in finding friends in Thessaly and other places. Socrates is afraid that Crito is but pressing upon him the opinions of th... ...the right. Are these principles to be al tered because the circumstances of Socrates are altered? Crito admits that they remain the same. Then is his... ... the maintenance of them? To this Crito is un able or unwilling to reply. Socrates proceeds: Suppose the laws of Athens to come and remonstrate wit... ...nemy. Such is the mystic voice which is always murmuring in his ears. That Socrates was not a good citizen was a charge made against him during his ... ...on of Crito, the aged friend, as the fittest person to make the proposal to Socrates, we seem to recognize the hand of the artist. Whether anyone who... ... is a thesis about which casuists might disagree. Shelley is of opinion that Socrates “did well to die,” but not for the “sophistical” reasons which P... ...ato has put into his mouth. And there would be no difficulty in arguing that Socrates should have lived and preferred to a glorious death the good wh...

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..."Socrates’ haunting cave scenario, immortalized by Plato, exposes reality issues that still bewitch us today: duality, dimensionality, experiential vs agreement reality, free will and our quest for purpose"............ "Now,...

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...Introduction: This dialogue begins abruptly with a question of Meno, who asks, ?whether virtue can be taught.? Socrates replies that he does not as yet know what virtue is, and has never known anyone who did. ?Then he cannot have met Gorgias when he was at Athens.? Yes, Socrates had met him, but he has a bad memory, and has forgotten ...

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... abruptly with a question of Meno, who asks, ‘whether virtue can be taught.’ Socrates replies that he does not as yet know what virtue is, and has nev... ...yone who did. ‘Then he cannot have met Gorgias when he was at Athens.’ Y es, Socrates had met him, but he has a bad memory , and has forgotten what Go... ...irtue of every age and state of life, all of which may be easily described.’ Socrates reminds Meno that this is only an enu meration of the virtues a... ...o confesses his inabil ity , and after a process of interrogation, in which Socrates explains to him the nature of a ‘simile in multis,’ Socrates him... ...f the word ‘colour;’ and if he is a candid friend, and not a mere disputant, Socrates is willing to furnish him with a simpler and more philosophi ca... ...must still have a definition of colour. Some raillery follows; and at length Socrates is induced to reply , ‘that colour is the effluence of form, se... ...taste of Meno, who welcomes the familiar language of Gorgias and Empedocles. Socrates is of opinion that the more abstract or dialectical definition o... ...definition repeats the word defined. Meno complains that the conversation of Socrates has the effect of a torpedo’s shock upon him. When he talks with... ...lks with other persons he has plenty to say about virtue; in the presence of Socrates, his thoughts desert him. Socrates re plies that he is only the...

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...ht that should rightly discover this secret light. Is not ingenuity (according to us) cosin germaine unto sottishnesse, and a quality of reproach? Socrates maketh his soule to moove, with a naturall and common motion. Thus saith a plaine Country-man, and thus a seely Woman: Hee never hath other people in his mouth than Coach-makers, Joyners, Coblers, and Masons....

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...es, are rather comforts to the living, than helps to the dead.' Therefore Socrates answered Criton, who at the houre of his death asked him how he w... ...equence in such things, as a great Captaine and a Philosopher, and one of Socrates chiefest Disciples, nor doe I altogether yeeld unto the measure o... ...pply what mean ing and construction it shall please unto it. The Dæmon of Socrates was peradventure a certaine impulsion or will, which without the ... ...on, and violent in perswasion and disswasion (which was more ordinarie to Socrates) by which I have so happily and so profitably suffred my selfe to ... ...their faces. The Turkes at this day retaine something of that humour. And Socrates in Plato doth mocke at Laches, because he had defined fortitude, ... ...o endure one: what matter is it when it commeth, since it is unavoidable? Socrates answered one that told him, 'The thirty tyrants have condemned ... ...hor of the only immortall worke of mortall man. Divine worke according to Socrates; and love, desire of immortalitie, and immortall Damon himselfe. ... ...dated and left to its service and common opinions: as that good and great Socrates, who refused to save his life by disobeying the magistrate, yea a... ...bear/montaigne/1xxiv.htm (9 of 10)4/10/2005 3:38:17 AM Montaigne's Essays Socrates, after his blunt manner, to mocke Hippias, who reporteth unto him ...

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... century AD Buddhist author of Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way (Mulamadhyamakakarika). Mādhyamaka Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha (563-483 BC). Socrates (Greek philosopher, 469 BC to 399 BC). Plato (424BC - 348 BC), Greek philosopher who re-wrote the Republic seven time over. Narrator...

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...NESOR (“New Social Risks and the role of universities”), un proyecto de investigación co-financiado por la Unión Europea a través del programa Socrates, ha analizado la función de la educación superior en el nuevo modelo social europeo, que es uno de las referencias estratégicas de la Unión Europea para la sociedad del conocimiento. Se prestó especial atención a las...

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...fashioning the physical world after the pattern of an ideal, eternal one. The dramatic setting of the dialogue is the day after a discussion in which Socrates has described his ideal state - as in the 'Republic'. A conversation between Socrates, Critias, Hermocrates and Timaeus, including Critias' account of Solon's journey to Egypt (where he hears the story of Atlantis), ...

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... justice or temperance, or any of the higher ideas which are precious to souls, in the earthly copies of them: they are seen through a glass, dimly…” Socrates and his earnest friend Phaedrus, enjoying the Athenian equivalent of a lunchtime stroll in the park, exchange views on love and on the power of words, spoken and written. Phaedrus is the most enchanting of Plato’s Er...

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... and perhaps a sufficient, proof of its genuineness. The plan is simple; the dramatic interest consists entirely in the contrast between the irony of Socrates and the transparent vanity and childlike enthusiasm of the rhapsode Ion. The theme of the Dialogue may possibly have been suggested by the passage of Xenophon?s Memorabilia in which the rhapsodists are described by E...

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...e dramatic interest con sists entirely in the contrast between the irony of Socrates and the transparent vanity and childlike enthusiasm of the rhaps... ...f Asclepius, and is intending to exhibit at the festival of the Panathenaea. Socrates admires and envies the rhapsode’s art; for he is always well dre... ... Ion, who asks how this contradiction is to be solved. The solution given by Socrates is as follows:— The rhapsode is not guided by rules of art, but ... ...mself when he is performing;—his eyes rain tears and his hair stands on end. Socrates is of opinion that a man must be mad who behaves in this way at ... ...ed by his friends and there is nothing to trouble him. Ion is confident that Socrates would never think him mad if he could only hear his embellishmen... ...would never think him mad if he could only hear his embellishments of Homer. Socrates asks whether he can speak well about everything in Homer. ‘Y es,... ...nowledge?’ Ion answers that he can interpret anything in Homer. But, rejoins Socrates, when Homer speaks of the arts, as for example, of chariot drivi... ...egarded as inspired or dishonest?’ Ion, who has no suspicion of the irony of Socrates, eagerly em braces the alternative of inspiration. The Ion, lik... ...working in the mind of Plato, and is embodied by him in the contrast between Socrates and Ion. Y et here, as in the Republic, Socrates shows a sympath...

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... in the description of Greek life. The question is again raised of the relation of knowledge to virtue and good, which also recurs in the Laches; and Socrates appears again as the elder friend of the two boys, Lysis and Menexenus. In the Charmides, as also in the Laches, he is described as middleaged; in the Lysis he is advanced in years....

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...lation of knowledge to virtue and good, which also recurs in the Laches; and Socrates appears again as the elder friend of the two boys, Lysis and Men... ... seem to have no relation to each other. The first is a conversation between Socrates and Lysis, who, like Charmides, is an Athenian youth of noble de... ...in the absence of Menexenus, who is called away to take part in a sacrifice. Socrates asks Lysis whether his father and mother do not love him very mu... ...ithout knowledge, he can have as yet no conceit of knowledge. In this manner Socrates reads a lesson to Hippothales, the foolish lover of Lysis, respe... ...ation which he should address to his beloved. After the return of Menexenus, Socrates, at the request of Lysis, asks him a new question: ‘What is frie... ...o the second; and from the second to the third; and neither the two boys nor Socrates are satisfied with any of the three or with all of them. Socrate... ...ri umphant accord, a fresh dissatisfaction begins to steal over the mind of Socrates: Must not friend ship be for the sake of some ulterior end? and... ...ood, as has been also shown. The problem is unsolved, and the three friends, Socrates, Lysis, and Menexenus, are still unable to find out what a frien... ... espe cially the Protagoras and Theaetetus), no conclu sion is arrived at. Socrates maintains his character of a ‘know nothing;’ but the boys have a...