Lastly, I will explain to the reader why Socrates’ convictions are stronger and more important because he asserts a moral attitude into his decision. In any just or unjust
Cuba and Americas severed relations affected Cuba in more way than one. Due to Castro, Cuba became the first communist country in not only the Caribbean but the entire Western Hemisphere. During the 1970s Castro visited Chile and was actively involved politically. He held rallies in an effort to try and Chile to follow the same path as Cuba and become a communist country . After leaving an influence in Chile, Castro moved to Africa to try and create new allies.
Through becoming a teacher of the young men who followed him in Athens, Socrates effectively began to enter the public life. He was able to influence others through sharing his conclusions of justice, self-examination, and piety, and by asking relentless questions. Socrates effectively showed that an individual can live a private and a public life, even if Socrates was not directly involved in the policy-making in Athens. An individual can combine these two aspects of life in a productive way allowing her/him to live a full existence. These individuals can become teachers, politicians, and activists who use their focus on justice and piety in their private lives to advocate and create laws that promote true justice for the rest of the
Socrates was a man that was in search of the truth about wisdom. However, it became more then just a search when it brought him to trail of accusations. As a philosopher Socrates was known to overdrawn ideas and to frustrate anyone he was talking to. He is always in search of a better idea and for anyone who has experienced Socrates could assume he is making up his own actualities. This becomes evident in “ Apology” written by Plato, where Socrates was brought in charges for corrupting the minds of the youth and not believing in the Gods.
Socrates was born in 470 BCE of a mother who was a mid-wife, and a father who was a stonecutter. Socrates himself followed his father’s path and lived as a stonemason in the city of Athens, Greece. While growing up as a young man, Socrates was known as an intellectual spirit who thought freely and questioned the world and its practices. He and a few other philosophers, which one was his brilliant student, began the wisdom of Western philosophy. Although he was very intelligent, Socrates did not write a single form of philosophy.
Socrates vast ideas and political strategies that he exemplifies in the Republic was truly insightful and fascinating to me. His critical arguments and obvious comparative thinking strategies along with his structured ideas of justice, challenges today’s policies. In our contemporary world of politics there is a huge wage gap between our middle and lower class and inequality results from the mixture of injustice and culture influences. The categorizations made in our society, call for the social inequalities we have between classes. Socrates creates a system establishing a unity between the people in his ideal state, and a rather single solution of justice on his moral idea of the good.
The philosopher Socrates actions and beliefs, are known for opposing the Athenian societies traditional forming ideas as a citizen. An Athenian citizen has certain notions to become loyal and patriotic like to the society. He wants to replace that with a new kind of rational citizenship. His view of citizenship relies on one's own power of independent reasons ad judgement. HIs actions and beliefs is believed to what led Socrates being in trial, questioning if he is innocent or a perpetrator.
For several reasons and possibilities, Socrates is
The goodness within Socrates is irrefutable, as clarified by the gods. As exhibited by his non-publicized yet keenly public teachings, Socrates only considers the wellbeing of the general population. He educates in order to positively affect the common welfare; he does not educate to acquire his own personal benefits. It is the selfish act of only focusing on one’s own self interest that defines the difference between a good man and a bad man.
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.
The existence and continual study of Socrates’ philosophy regardless of differing accounts is astonishing in itself since it survived not through the specific philosopher, but through other people. Which is a testament of the impact that a man, such as Socrates, can make. When we think of Plato, who is regarded as a father of western philosophy, we are quick to think of his major work The Republic, his student Aristotle, and his writing on Socrates. (We think of his writings on Socrates as mere footnotes in philosophical thought without examining them.) “Nothing comes from nothing,” Parmenides proudly claimed, and this philosophical doctrine applies to Plato’s thought.
Connor R. Kremer Dr. Jane Frazier ENG-320-01 14 February 2023 The Personal Philosophy of Socrates The philosophical influence of Socrates is almost incomparable to that of any other philosopher. His teachings and those of his students have changed how humans think, theorize, and communicate with others. However, the Ancient Greeks that lived alongside Socrates did not appreciate his contemporary conversations on morality.
W. H. Auden asserted, “Had Greek civilization never existed, we would never have become fully conscious, which is to say that we would never have become, for better or worse, fully human.” This statement is true since, without Greeks, western civilizations would be missing many things that benefit us today. One of many things western civilization benefit from Greek is in the Scientific, medical and philosophy field. Even the arts and the writing in Greek history is an influence in western civilization today. An example is Socrates influence on western civilization.
Socrates creates a turning point in history since pre-socratic philosophers before him were much more interested in establishing how the world works while Socrates was more concerned with how people should behave, and was called the first major philosopher of Ethics. Another turning point was that he wrote nothing because he felt that knowledge was a living, interactive thing. Socrates' method of philosophical inquiry consisted in questioning people on the positions they asserted and working them through questions into a contradiction, thus proving to them that their original assertion was wrong. Other philosopher’s before him tried to write their beliefs. Socrates follows in the footsteps of the early Sophists in making ethics his primary
Philosophical thinking uses three acts of the mind: understanding, judgement, and reason. In order to have a sound argument all of the concepts must be applied. Socrates didn’t want to please the people by saying or doing what they wanted him to say or do. Socrates thought it was not important to seek wealth or fame; he was concerned with truth and virtue. He wanted to create an impact on humanity by relying on the truth and shining a light in people’s lives, even if they put him on trial.
