My first argument is Socrates prioritizes god law over men law. On the beginning of his defenses, Socrates had told by the Oracle of Delphi that he is the wisest of all men. However, Socrates does not believe Oracle’s words and then he goes out to find someone wiser. He had investigated the politicians, poets and craftsmen in order to understand the meaning of the Delphi’s claims (Apology 22a – d). However, he found out that none of them were wiser.
Socrates contradicts Gorgias when he says “Communities shouldn’t hold trainers responsible and banish them for what a boxer does with his boxing” (Socrates 22). So Socrates questions how they would be immoral if they were taught to be moral. He uses logos to win his argument against Gorgias by having him admit to Socrates being right. Gorgias thinks a teacher cannot be accountable but then admits people who are taught morality don’t necessarily have to be moral. When a rhetorician abuses the power of rhetoric, his teacher should not be blamed because he teaches the knowledge to be used correctly.
Socrates died yesterday at the age of 71 when he was executed because of his religious beliefs. He was known by many people in Greece and was well liked by some as well as hated amongst crowds of people. His views on politics turned many people against him including the Athenian government. Socrates was sentenced to death because he refused to recognize the gods and the government thought he sought to corrupt the youth by teaching them to ask questions to find the answers. The Socratic method is a form of discussion when people ask questions to stimulate thinking and discovering people’s ideas, and his thoughts got him in a lot of trouble.
For the individuals who are searching for a tasteful meaning of devotion, the discourse is a failure, for no conclusion has been come to concerning the exact idea of that goodness. It has now and again been kept up that the genuine motivation behind logic isn't to answer addresses yet rather scrutinize the appropriate responses that have been given. Anyways, this is precisely what Socrates has been doing in this back and forth. Euthyphro has displayed a few speedy and prepared responses to the inquiry "What is devotion?" however upon magnification, each of these questions has appeared to be unsuitable.
According to Euthyphro it can be argued that the bible can be used as a foundation to collective set of ethical standards. Frequently ethical standards are a set of myriad principles that people strive for like accountability, generosity, and respect. Throughout the reading Socrates main concern was that Euthyphro was unable to define what holy and unholy was through the divine law. I believe that one of the flaws Socrates found in Euthyphro position was that he did not have any physical evidence like the bible to support his position. Perhaps, this is one of the reasons that at the end Euthyphro contradicts himself since he did not have a scripture and only based his knowledge of the divine law through tails from the Gods.
He “undercut the authority and legitimacy of a particular regime. ”1 Socrates openly denied the gods, which meant he openly denied the legitimacy of the prestigious politicians of Greece.
Since the day of the judgment between Athens and Socrates in 399 year B.C. many historians, philosophers, and students wonder to know whether Socrates was Guilty. Philosopher was accused in corrupting the youth, not believing in the recognized gods and introducing new divinities and in the rejection of civic life in democratic society. It is very difficult to answer on this question, may be even impossible. In my opinion, there are three types of people: 1.
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.
Since the beginning of times, people have gotten into muddles and explained their side of the story with the truth with one or two lies. Nowadays, people, businesses and including nations have censored their media, like North Korea, to falsely lead people into believing that they are the good guys. The government sometimes censor news to prevent us from learning about the issues that go against them or affect us like when Socrates was sentenced to death, and how the national government of Mexico cheated in an election. Socrates’s death was the response of a government of Athens trying to keep their people from expanding their knowledge to the world they considered unknown and dangerous.
Here is my first piece of evidence to support my point. “I happen to be a gift of the god to the city; and this is how you can tell: Unlike most people, I have neglected all my own interests, and I’ve put up with this private neglect for so many years, while always attending to your business.” (Lines 108-111) In the quote stated above, Socrates claims that even with the annoyance people found in him, he pursued in his mission to help the people. Even though he had to give up his interests and hobbies, he did not give up his mission and focused on his work with the people all those years.
2. Socrates and religious beliefs Introduction In Phaedo, Socrates makes a number of claims regarding the existence and nature of the afterlife and the immortality and reincarnation of the soul. I will be contrasting and comparing Socrates beliefs with those of the Jewish faith.
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.
Socrates was considered one of the wisest men in Greece and his words of wisdom are still used till this day. Socrates exclaimed that “the unexamined life is not worth living” (Plato 45) although there was a confusion with this statement. Socrates uttered these words during his trial when the courts did not allow him to continue his quest. An unexamined life refers to living life without exploring, without the curiosity to learn something new or encounter new experiences. Why would one choose to not to live life for any reason?
Socrates was a great philosopher of the Greek world. He was quite an atypical and distinctive person. Being different from all the other philosophers of the land, Socrates was teaching his students ideas totally out of the ordinary from what the society believed was right. As a result, he displeased many people so much that they decided to get rid of him. Socrates was put to trial, accused of spoiling the youth of Athens, tried and sentenced to death.
Famously Socrates was more adept at asking such questions than spoon-feeding us the answers. His “Socratic method” consisted of a process of questioning designed to expose ignorance and clear the way for knowledge. Socrates himself admits that he is ignorant, and yet he became the wisest of all men through this self-knowledge. Like an empty cup Socrates is open to receive the waters of knowledge wherever he may find them; yet through his cross examinations he finds only people who claim to be wise but really know nothing. Most of our cups are too filled with pride, conceit, and beliefs we cling to in order to give us a sense of identity and security.
