Essays on Socrates

IntroductionOne of the most challenging ideologies in life is the understanding of the world around us. As human beings, we all make an effort to understand how we are alive, the purpose of our existence, and what is reality? However, most of us are not confident in trying to understand...

The philosophical works of Plato make some of the world's most widely studied and read works (Brickhouse and Nicholas). Most of his philosophy by his teacher, Socrates who remains at the center of most of his work. Other philosophers who have influenced his dialogues by their philosophical perspectives are Heraclitus,...

Born in 469 B.C in Athens – Greek, Socrates remains to be one of the great philosophers in history and is often associated with being the father of today’s philosophy (Hanlon, 2017). He played a key figure in developing of the Western civilization as he brought order into moral chaos and...

In Plato’s Republic IV: Justice in the City, Justice in the Soul In Plato’s Republic IV: Justice in the City, Justice in the Soul, the author compares the city to the soul. He divides the city into three parts including wisdom, courage, and moderation, while the three elements of the soul...

While in his trial, Socrates posited that the "unexamined life is not worth living for man" which meant not living the "good life." According to Socrates, examined life is the one that is aimed at attaining knowledge and wisdom over material possessions. When Socrates was on trial for sharing wisdom...

The Plato’s Republic provides an opportunity for a succinct evaluation of the Socratic method of questioning when the great philosopher engages other thinkers like Thrasymachus, Adeimantus, and Glaucon. The purpose of the essay is to explain why Plato disassociates Socrates from Sophists and Plato's definition of justice.             Plato puts three...

Plato's Apology and Socrates' Trial Plato is famous for his teachings in philosophy, and also the lessons he recorded from Socrates and his teachings. One of the most famous passages about Socrates is the Apology, a statement by Socrates accounted by Plato about Socrates trial. It is necessary to understand the...

Socrates, one of the great philosophers of all time, held different views from those who preceded him like Thales and Anaximander of Miletos. The philosophers who came after Socrates like Plato and Aristotle also held contrasting opinions from Socrates. The purpose of the paper is to discuss the divergent philosophical...

The interpretation of moral excellence varies according to the personality and beliefs of an individual. It can be described as the knowledge and act of doing the right things and avoiding the bad ones. People might have different reasons for justifying something bad they have done, and claim that what...

In the reading “Plato's Apology of Socrates”, Plato makes an argument that he is not supposed to be stopped or prosecuted because he does not believe in God and his continuous enlightenment of the poor masses. Moreover, he argues with Miletus who accuses him of teaching moral virtues such as...

In Book Four of Plato’s Republic, Socrates uses the analogy of the city and the soul to demonstrate the three forms that give the soul the same level of justice as the city. If the three classes in the city and the psyche are the same, then an individual’s justice...

Socrates remains one of the prominent law philosophers in Greek following his contribution to the concept of the law (Ranasinghe). He viewed natural law as a source of justice; however, from his teachings, it is unsettled as to whether he was a pure naturalist law thinker or positivists. This paper...