Socrates and Martin Luther King Jr. were both great revolutionary speakers of their time. They both questioned the society around them and voiced their contradictory ideas. These historical figures were viewed as criminals in the eyes of their society. In the Crito, by Plato, Socrates is in a prison cell and awaiting his trial. Martin Luther King Jr wrote A Letter From Birmingham Jail, when he was impressed for holding a nonviolent campaign.
(20c) Socrates mentions that it was human wisdom and nothing more that has allowed himself to know what he knows. (20d) Socrates even mentions
In this play the Socrates here doesn't sound like the Socrates from the Apology or the real life Socrates. The real Socrates doesn't actually teach per say, he teaches in a way that makes you yourself use your brain. He makes you question everything and understand things based on your own perception. The writer of this play clearly felt as if Socrates was a major problem in his society for allowing people to actually try to think outside of the box and ask questions. He most likely enjoyed the fact that everyone were robots and all thought alike and believed in the same thing because it brought no need to bring out discussion.
It’s what motivates people to stay persistent in accomplishing their goals. Socrates was an incredibly determined person. His single goal in life was to learn and to question others, a task he claimed was given to him by the gods, and in this goal, he succeeded tremendously. Socrates was endlessly determined to question as many people as possible, and even more so determined in aiding the questionee to achieve non biased logic in their thinking, while showing that what the claim to know, they do not really. For example, when Socrates was questioning Euthyphro about how he concluded what’s pious and what’s not, he kept asking what Euthyphro meant meant by his responses: “So you did not answer my question, you surprising man” (Euthyphro 8a).
His goal was to make the court understand his beliefs prove which type of knowledge is worth knowing. When talking about the wise man he examined, Socrates said, “Neither of us actually knows what Beauty and Goodness are, but he thinks he knows, even though he doesn’t; whereas I neither know nor think I know.” This shows that Socrates proved he was more wise than the titled wise man because instead of faking the knowledge, that wasn’t too important, he accepted that he did not know which would result in him then seeking for
Crito gives three different reasons for this statement. One is that Socrates will be doing what his enemies intended for him to do. Next, Socrates is failing to raise and educate his children if he agrees
In Meno Socrates discusses his belief that humans and society are better off knowing that they don’t know something rather than thinking they do know something they don’t. People are better off knowing they don’t know something because they will not claim to know and understand something that they do not and in turn discredit someone else 's feelings; realizing they don’t know may also be cause enough for someone to push themselves and question themselves so they can know whatever it is they wish to know. However, the question of is ignorance bliss still remains. It is better for someone to know they don’t know because they won’t think they can understand a situation they can’t. There are a lot of things people can’t understand until they’ve
The Greek Golden Age Athens's Golden Age was a time of peace, achievements, and innovations in numerous aspects of Athenian society. However, this wasn’t always the case for the Greeks. Several decades prior the Greeks were involved in what is now known as the Persian Wars. They were involved in violent conflicts with Persia for almost half a century before they managed to reign victorious in 479 B.C.E . This unlikely victory was ultimately the spark that marked the dismantling of the Greek alliance and the start of the Athenian empire.
Socrates taught his pupils how to think by questioning and evaluating certain aspects of life in Athens from a more technical perspective. This new outlook could’ve caused young people in the community to find flaws with Athens and the government, and try to go against the standard, traditional ways of the community. By instructing his pupils to question how and where they live, Socrates was posed as a threat to the government. The government and other people in power believed that the youth, that was taught by Socrates may try to break away from the standards that were set, which can eventually lead to havoc within the
Making enemies and becoming the topic of conversation, the Athenians began to view Socrates as a threat to their beliefs and way of life and sought to end it. In order to end this, Socrates was accused of blasphemy (Mod1SlideC7). Socrates’s accusers took him to court and after Socrates did not play their game by asking to be sent into exile, and in the end, he was sentenced to death. After reading the textbook and Plato’s writing influenced by Socrates, I realized that in the period of his life Socrates was indeed truly a threat to the Athens society, because he looked for answers that no one else bothered to find which challenged their culture.
Here leads me to believe that Plato through Socrates is verbally expressing that the people of the State depend on the correct choice of their future ruler and type of person this ruler is to be, so it is up to the prior ruler to make sure of the person they opt to rule properly. On the other hand, if a new leader is chosen infelicitously, or person who is fixated on nothing but making money and becoming rich off of their citizens backs and misfortunes, then once they take position, others like them are sure to follow and eventually the state would be in ruin. They would begin to lose focus of why they are in their position and would be warring with other nations. The citizens would become slaves for their rulers cause. The best way to choose
In his innocent eyes, all he did was go out to talk and question the Athenian people. Although at times there may have been youth following him as he went out to question others, they simply were just there to listen. In the event that the youth may have come up with ideas of their own based off of Socrates’s conversations they heard, that is not direct teaching from Socrates. This is like when a parent tells their child not to touch a hot stove, yet the kid goes and touches it anyway. Children have a mind of their own regardless of what they have been told is right or wrong.
He told Socrates to answer this own question. This again shows that Polus has no confidence in his position of only doing what is good for oneself and does not want to be wrong even more,
For hundreds of years philosophers have assigned knowledge the supreme role and have called knowledge the ultimate purpose and meaning of human life. Aristotle, the famous Greek philosopher said “theoretical wisdom, that is, knowledge of the first principles and of what follows from them, is by nature our purpose and is the ultimate thing for the sake of which we have come to be. This is the highest form of knowledge since it is knowledge with grounding of the highest things. Through this kind of knowledge one not only knows what follows from the first principles, but also possesses truth about the first principles.” Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872–1970) was a British philosopher, logician, essayist and social critic best known for his work in mathematical logic and analytic philosophy.
“Plato’s philosophy is an attempt to justify Socrates’ belief in the objectivity of moral virtues.” As one of Socrates’ most loyal disciples, Plato’s own philosophy was heavily influenced by Socrates’ own thoughts and teachings. Much of Plato’s philosophy is a direct extension of some of the questions Socrates posed, i.e., Socrates asked what justice is, and Plato explored this question in his own writings. It is Socrates’ code of ethics, however, that most closely corresponds with Plato’s ethics.
