Xenophon’s Apology, by his own account and admission, does not seek to record the entirely of Socrates’ defense, but rather to remark that he committed no impiety towards the gods nor injustice towards men, and to accentuate that Socrates, in fact, welcomed death.
Xenophon’s Apology, by his own account and admission, does not seek to record the entirely of Socrates’ defense, but rather to remark that he committed no impiety towards the gods nor injustice towards men, and to accentuate that Socrates, in fact, welcomed death.
Xenophon’s Apology, by his own account and admission, does not seek to record the entirely of Socrates’ defense, but rather to remark that he committed no impiety towards the gods nor injustice towards men, and to accentuate that Socrates, in fact, welcomed death.
A summary is a convenience that comes at a cost – in order to shorten and simplify the information it condenses it, ideally, but in reality it often excludes and disregards also. The reader becomes more knowledgeable than they were, but not knowledgeable enough. Such has been my experience with philosophy-related summaries in the past,…
The Apology, otherwise known as The Apology of Socrates, is Plato’s account of Socrates’ legal defense against the charges of impiety and corrupting the youth before a jury of Athenian citizens in 399 BCE. Believed to have been written in the early 4th century BCE, The Apology was translated by Benjamin Jowett into English in…
The Apology, otherwise known as The Apology of Socrates, is Plato’s account of Socrates’ legal defense against the charges of impiety – asbeia in ancient Greek – and corrupting the youth in 399 BCE. Plato’s Apology, along with Xenophon’s Apology of Socrates to the Jury, are the only two primary sources of information about Socrates’…
Plato’s theory of Forms, essentially, says that the physical world we perceive is an imperfect manifestation of eternal Forms. These Forms are the ultimate reality, and understanding the Forms is the key to genuine knowledge and wisdom.
Socratic philosophy, as a subject of study, is a controversial one. A sentiment expressed in numerous Platonic dialogues is that Socrates favored dialogue over monologue, and by implication, conversation over the written word. Another possibility, congruent with the times, is that he was illiterate. Whatever the case may be, Socrates never produced a philosophical treatise…
The Pre-Socratic philosophers and the schools of thought they founded, unified solely by their shared commitment to observation and reason, challenged the prevailing mythological explanations of their time as they sought to uncover the mysteries of the natural world.
The four cardinal virtues are thought to be the primary virtues from which all other virtues derive. In fact, the etymological root of the word “cardinal”, the Latin “cardo”, literally means hinge. The cardinal virtues are so called because all other virtues hinge, or depend, on them. They represent both the quintessential virtues and the source of virtue itself.