Plato’s Symposium provides six varying perspectives on love, each presented in different forms ranging from entertaining tales (Aristophanes) to formal rhetoric (Agathon). However, the most spectacular of the speeches on love comes from Socrates who pulls bits from the others’ dialogues and subtly incorporates them into his own to create the broad definition of love, encompassing both the love of wisdom and the love of various forms of beauty. His speech also serves as a defense in Plato’s Apology
fundamental contradiction that arises in the two dialogues by Socrates; Crito and Apology by Plato. In the Apology we get to meet the defiant Socrates who declares during his trial that he would not stop practicing philosophy in contradiction to the jury’s order if he was to be acquitted on condition never to practice philosophy ever again. Socrates claimed that he would choose to obey the gods as long as he was alive instead of obeying men. Here Socrates can be seen to present a defiant argument for disobedience
Plato’s Apology and Crito discuss both Socrates’s response to the charges brought against him by various citizens of Athens, as well as the reasoning behind his choice to obey the city by accepting the punishment that was handed down to him. At first glance, Socrates’s sharp words may be viewed as disobedient to Athens. After careful evaluation of Socrates’s speeches and subsequent actions, it is vibrantly clear that Socrates is not undermining the law of the city; he is undermining those who make
Socrates father of philosophy and founder of western philosophy was killed by Athenians and today in the 21st century we know him by his student works Plato (Kofman, Sarah, 1998). One of Plato’s works is “The apology” in which he wrote about Socrates defense in a court. Socrates is defending himself against the charges which Meletus accused. He was indicted for corrupting the minds of youth and not believing in God of the state. The apology did not work and lost the trial, consequently, he was sentenced
what is right absolutely, and what has simply been taught to you? In Ancient Athens and Early 20th century England, laws of nature were being manipulated, and a social construction emerged to serve a hierarchy. In Plato’s Five Dialogues and Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, Socrates and Woolf search for the truths about wisdom and creativity to reveal the misconceptions
Socrates spend his life trying to convince people to live a good live. Since that time when Greece was at its golden age, Socrates was thinking on how to let the people of Athens to live a good life. More importantly, he attempted the people of Athens in many ways, but the one he did the most is to be mortal individuals. Socrates was accused by many people through out his life. One of the reasons is being a sophist, which means to make a weaker argument the stronger. However, it is possible to say
Toward Death In Plato’s Apology, Socrates rationalizes: “The fear of death amounts simply to thinking one is wise when one is not: it is thinking one knows something one does not know. No one knows, you see, whether death may not in fact prove the greatest of all blessings for mankind; but people fear it as if they knew it for certain to be the greatest of evils” (29). Death is close to every human being but we all dislike thinking the fact that death is unavoidable. Leo Tolstoy emphasizes this nature