Making Athens Great Again - International Psychoanalysis
... hanging around the agora, volubly engaging residents of every rank, was someone to turn on: Socrates, whose provocative questioning of the city-state’s sense of moral superiority no longer seemed as entertaining as it had in more secure times. Athenians were in no mood to have their views shaken up. ...
... hanging around the agora, volubly engaging residents of every rank, was someone to turn on: Socrates, whose provocative questioning of the city-state’s sense of moral superiority no longer seemed as entertaining as it had in more secure times. Athenians were in no mood to have their views shaken up. ...
the history of western civilization
... I will speak first of our ancestors, for it is right and seemly that now, when we are lamenting the dead, a tribute should be paid to their memory. There has never been a time when they did not inhabit this land, which by their valor they will have handed down from generation to generation, and we h ...
... I will speak first of our ancestors, for it is right and seemly that now, when we are lamenting the dead, a tribute should be paid to their memory. There has never been a time when they did not inhabit this land, which by their valor they will have handed down from generation to generation, and we h ...
The Trial of Socrates
... significance to the political crimes, while other historians such as James A. Colaiaco, author of Socrates Against Athens, give more weight to the charge of impiety. I. F. Stone argues that "Athenians were accustomed to hearing the gods treated disrespectfully in both the comic and tragic theatre." ...
... significance to the political crimes, while other historians such as James A. Colaiaco, author of Socrates Against Athens, give more weight to the charge of impiety. I. F. Stone argues that "Athenians were accustomed to hearing the gods treated disrespectfully in both the comic and tragic theatre." ...
The Trial of Socrates by Doug Linder (2002)
... democracy was temporarily overthrown, one four-month period in 411-410 and another slightly longer period in 404-403. The prime movers in both of the anti-democratic movements were former pupils of Socrates, Alcibiades and Critias. Athenians undoubtedly considered the teachings of Socrates--especial ...
... democracy was temporarily overthrown, one four-month period in 411-410 and another slightly longer period in 404-403. The prime movers in both of the anti-democratic movements were former pupils of Socrates, Alcibiades and Critias. Athenians undoubtedly considered the teachings of Socrates--especial ...
by Was Plato's Socrates Convicted A Biased Jury?l
... revised version was put in circulation by, or after 416 BC. At the same festival in the same year, two other comedies equally adverse to the Socratic circle were performed. 15 The fourth century theatre held between 14,000 and 17,000 spectators, and it is likely that the late fifth century audience ...
... revised version was put in circulation by, or after 416 BC. At the same festival in the same year, two other comedies equally adverse to the Socratic circle were performed. 15 The fourth century theatre held between 14,000 and 17,000 spectators, and it is likely that the late fifth century audience ...
I.F. Stone Breaks the Socrates Story:
... just 54 years after the trial of Socrates. This bit is well known to scholars but its significance has never been fully appreciated. With the clue Aeschines provides, we may begin to reconstruct the Athenian political realities. Aeschines cited the case of Socrates as a praiseworthy precedent. "Men ...
... just 54 years after the trial of Socrates. This bit is well known to scholars but its significance has never been fully appreciated. With the clue Aeschines provides, we may begin to reconstruct the Athenian political realities. Aeschines cited the case of Socrates as a praiseworthy precedent. "Men ...
Plato`s Protagoras: Myth and Democracy on Trial
... In a change of pace and tone, Protagoras gives a long, rational speech echoing the values of Plato and Socrates. Through long-term schooling, physical activity, and ·imitation of past heroes, virtue is taught slowly and ingrained into ones mind and behavior. Not everyone can become a master of virtu ...
... In a change of pace and tone, Protagoras gives a long, rational speech echoing the values of Plato and Socrates. Through long-term schooling, physical activity, and ·imitation of past heroes, virtue is taught slowly and ingrained into ones mind and behavior. Not everyone can become a master of virtu ...
Socrates
... And the whole life of a philosopher, the search for wisdom is the preparation for death because wisdom is the understanding of absolute truths, of absolute justice, absolute harmony, absolute beauty, absolute honor, and the soul that has prepared itself will be united with God. And that ...
... And the whole life of a philosopher, the search for wisdom is the preparation for death because wisdom is the understanding of absolute truths, of absolute justice, absolute harmony, absolute beauty, absolute honor, and the soul that has prepared itself will be united with God. And that ...
maggio - diegomanetti
... Though not disgraceful in itself, the wise men of Greece had never accepted payment for their teaching. The sophists were not, technically speaking, philosophers, but, instead taught any subject for which there was a popular demand. Topics included rhetoric, politics, grammar, etymology, history, ph ...
... Though not disgraceful in itself, the wise men of Greece had never accepted payment for their teaching. The sophists were not, technically speaking, philosophers, but, instead taught any subject for which there was a popular demand. Topics included rhetoric, politics, grammar, etymology, history, ph ...
Socrates: His Life and Times
... politics unlike most Athenians of his time. If he opposed injustice and illegality publicly, he might have been put to death much sooner; therefore he chose to fight for right as a private citizen. He did openly oppose the Sicilian expedition of 415 and since much of Athens government was chosen by ...
... politics unlike most Athenians of his time. If he opposed injustice and illegality publicly, he might have been put to death much sooner; therefore he chose to fight for right as a private citizen. He did openly oppose the Sicilian expedition of 415 and since much of Athens government was chosen by ...
Third Annual Kossmann Lecture by Paul Cartledge
... Democracy was exercised by the People in courts of law no less than in the Assembly. Indeed, according to Aristotle's definition, being a Greek citizen, whatever the city's constitutional complexion, meant 'sharing in office (arkhê) and in judicial judgment (krisis)'. Though not himself a citizen of ...
... Democracy was exercised by the People in courts of law no less than in the Assembly. Indeed, according to Aristotle's definition, being a Greek citizen, whatever the city's constitutional complexion, meant 'sharing in office (arkhê) and in judicial judgment (krisis)'. Though not himself a citizen of ...
CHRONOLOGY OF THE HISTORICAL SOCRATES IN THE
... The generals were being tried for a capital crime in one day – a flaw in the Athenian legal code that Socrates would later criticize (Plato, Apology 37a‐b) – but, even worse, they were being tried as a group, in direct violation of the Athenian law of Cannonus requiring each defend ...
... The generals were being tried for a capital crime in one day – a flaw in the Athenian legal code that Socrates would later criticize (Plato, Apology 37a‐b) – but, even worse, they were being tried as a group, in direct violation of the Athenian law of Cannonus requiring each defend ...
Trial of Socrates PPT
... In his mission as a kind of physician of the soul, Socrates sought to help people achieve virtue (arete) or excellence in functioning as a human. He believed that virtue is a special kind of knowledge that combines technical understanding with the skill and character to apply that knowledge. For thi ...
... In his mission as a kind of physician of the soul, Socrates sought to help people achieve virtue (arete) or excellence in functioning as a human. He believed that virtue is a special kind of knowledge that combines technical understanding with the skill and character to apply that knowledge. For thi ...
Socrates the man
... Socrates, who was about thirty-seven at the time, was among the soldiers who shipped out with either Archestratus or Callias in 432. He took part in the battle that immediately preceded the Athenians’ investment of Potidaea. Plato provides us with an unusually detailed account of Socrates’ behavior ...
... Socrates, who was about thirty-seven at the time, was among the soldiers who shipped out with either Archestratus or Callias in 432. He took part in the battle that immediately preceded the Athenians’ investment of Potidaea. Plato provides us with an unusually detailed account of Socrates’ behavior ...
the athens of aristophanes and socrates
... In the second half of the 5th C a reaction against physical speculation set in and philosophers began to direct their thoughts towards human life (i.e. the second side of philosophy). Part of the reason was a revolt of common sense against the remoteness and incomprehensibility of the world as the p ...
... In the second half of the 5th C a reaction against physical speculation set in and philosophers began to direct their thoughts towards human life (i.e. the second side of philosophy). Part of the reason was a revolt of common sense against the remoteness and incomprehensibility of the world as the p ...
Solon and the Rhetoric of Philosophy in Plato`s Dialogues
... Solon and the Rhetoric of Philosophy in Plato’s Dialogues In this paper, I argue that direct mention of Solon in Plato’s dialogues plays on the prominence of Solon’s name in fourth century Athens to improve the public perception of philosophy. We can see in the Old Comedy of Aristophanes how intelle ...
... Solon and the Rhetoric of Philosophy in Plato’s Dialogues In this paper, I argue that direct mention of Solon in Plato’s dialogues plays on the prominence of Solon’s name in fourth century Athens to improve the public perception of philosophy. We can see in the Old Comedy of Aristophanes how intelle ...
athens - Hazlet Township Public Schools
... The foundation of Spartan greatness was attributed to the legislation of Lycurgus, but was more probably the result of ascetic reforms introduced about 600 BC. In the 7th century BC, life in Sparta was similar to that in other Greek cities, and art and poetry, particularly choral lyrics (see ALCMAN) ...
... The foundation of Spartan greatness was attributed to the legislation of Lycurgus, but was more probably the result of ascetic reforms introduced about 600 BC. In the 7th century BC, life in Sparta was similar to that in other Greek cities, and art and poetry, particularly choral lyrics (see ALCMAN) ...
Some Helpful Context to Socrates` Trial and Execution
... the principle of exchanging one wrong for another, was in many ways at the basis of Greek religion; it was a core political and religious value. Socrates believed that within the existing framework of Athenian religious and political traditions, it was impossible for a rational—that is, non myth-bas ...
... the principle of exchanging one wrong for another, was in many ways at the basis of Greek religion; it was a core political and religious value. Socrates believed that within the existing framework of Athenian religious and political traditions, it was impossible for a rational—that is, non myth-bas ...
Plato
... aspects to its readers, … First of all, the Symposium contains a series of speeches on the subject of love [eros], and this is the main reason most readers are attracted to it. Second, it contains one of the most explicit and vivid descriptions of a Platonic ‘form,’ the Form of Beauty, which accordi ...
... aspects to its readers, … First of all, the Symposium contains a series of speeches on the subject of love [eros], and this is the main reason most readers are attracted to it. Second, it contains one of the most explicit and vivid descriptions of a Platonic ‘form,’ the Form of Beauty, which accordi ...
An Application of Plato`s Theaetetus
... labours in the world. Plato depicts Socrates underscoring, in many dialogues from the Gorgias to the Republic to the Theaetetus, the difficulty, nay the hopelessness, of achieving justice in the state when power remains in the hands of the non-philosopher. Plato appreciates the urgency of this probl ...
... labours in the world. Plato depicts Socrates underscoring, in many dialogues from the Gorgias to the Republic to the Theaetetus, the difficulty, nay the hopelessness, of achieving justice in the state when power remains in the hands of the non-philosopher. Plato appreciates the urgency of this probl ...
Greek Philosopher Bios
... acquainted with the intellectual elite at the court of Pericles, ruler of Athens, despite his plebian origins. As a young man, Socrates studied philosophy, establishing a familiarity with the work of earlier Greek philosophers. Heraclitus and Parmenides are thought to have been particularly influent ...
... acquainted with the intellectual elite at the court of Pericles, ruler of Athens, despite his plebian origins. As a young man, Socrates studied philosophy, establishing a familiarity with the work of earlier Greek philosophers. Heraclitus and Parmenides are thought to have been particularly influent ...
Lecture 8: Greek Thought: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle
... a later tale. In Plato's dialogue, the Crito, we meet a Socrates concerned with the future of his three sons. Just the same, his entire life was subordinated to "the supreme art of philosophy." He was a good citizen but held political office only once – he was elected to the Council of Five Hundred ...
... a later tale. In Plato's dialogue, the Crito, we meet a Socrates concerned with the future of his three sons. Just the same, his entire life was subordinated to "the supreme art of philosophy." He was a good citizen but held political office only once – he was elected to the Council of Five Hundred ...
IF Stone Breaks the Socrates Story
... This obsession with the trial of Socrates is not mine alone. Scholars and historians have been puzzled by it for centuries, and still are. What’s the puzzle? The Athens of Socrates’s time has gone down in history as the very place where democracy and freedom of speech were born. Yet that city put So ...
... This obsession with the trial of Socrates is not mine alone. Scholars and historians have been puzzled by it for centuries, and still are. What’s the puzzle? The Athens of Socrates’s time has gone down in history as the very place where democracy and freedom of speech were born. Yet that city put So ...
Socrates
Socrates (/ˈsɒkrətiːz/; Greek: Σωκράτης [sɔːkrátɛːs], Sōkrátēs; 470/469 – 399 BC) was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy. He is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of classical writers, especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon and the plays of his contemporary Aristophanes. Plato's dialogues are among the most comprehensive accounts of Socrates to survive from antiquity, though it is unclear the degree to which Socrates himself is ""hidden behind his 'best disciple', Plato"".Through his portrayal in Plato's dialogues, Socrates has become renowned for his contribution to the field of ethics, and it is this Platonic Socrates who lends his name to the concepts of Socratic irony and the Socratic method, or elenchus. The latter remains a commonly used tool in a wide range of discussions, and is a type of pedagogy in which a series of questions is asked not only to draw individual answers, but also to encourage fundamental insight into the issue at hand. Plato's Socrates also made important and lasting contributions to the field of epistemology, and the influence of his ideas and approach remains a strong foundation for much western philosophy that followed.