After being convicted in Athens of corrupting the youth and not believing in the Gods, Socrates was sentenced to death. Crito, a friend of Socrates comes to him while he is awaiting his punishment. Crito tries to convince Socrates to escape to another city, but Socrates chooses to stay and face his punishment in Athens after taking a look at the reasons to escape and the reasons to stay. Philosophical and personal issues were also contemplated by Socrates while making his decision. Socrates allows Crito to make his arguments, then Socrates makes his; after Crito fails to convince Socrates to escape, Socrates chooses to stay.
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. The Athenian government was intimidated and frightened by the thought that Socrates could overthrow their way of religion and governing style that has been practiced for years. After Athens was conquered by Sparta, only sixteen years ago, and the government became democratic. Socrates was against this form of government along with the other Athenians who questioned the government also.
The Story of Crito by Plato is essentially a dialogue conversation between Crito and Socrates. Socrates is awaiting execution at the hands of the state. Crito has an elaborate plan in place to free Socrates from execution. Crito has paid the prison guard off so that Socrates can escape and has other loyalist to Socrates ready to help him escape and live his life in exile. Socrates is nearly 70 years old at the time and somewhat feels like his life is essentially already over. Crito tells Socrates that he fears that the people of Athens will have negative feelings for him since he is wealthy and would not pay off the guards to allow Socrates to escape. Socrates has a counter argument to this statement by stating that he shouldn’t worry about the opinions of the many. Crito believes that the opinions of the many can result in the life or death of a person and their opinions do in fact matter. Socrates denies this and states that only the opinions of
Since the beginning of Western philosophy Socrates has been one of the best known philosophers. He was born in Athens Greece from 470 - 399B.C. and is still very relevant in todays time for his insights for the way people should live. As Socrates reached the end of his life
Crito was very persistent on convincing Socrates to escape his death by bring up many arguments. The first argument Crito had brought up was that he did not want to lose Socrates because he is a “one of kind” friend to him plus he implied his reputation will be tarnished due to not helping his special friend. Crito is worried that many people in society will look at him wrong for not helping Socrates during this difficult time. Crito second argument was basically advising Socrates that he should not be too harsh on himself for what he claimed in the court house regarding him not wanting to be an exile. Socrates’s Children were brought up in the third argument. Crito implied that Socrates must escape his death to educate his children and that
Socrates was born in 470 BC, in Athens and belonged to the tribe Antiochis. His parents were Sophroniscus and Phaenarete. Socrates married Xanthippe, who was remembered in particular of having an undesirable temper. She gave birth to three sons, Lambrocle, Sophronisco and Menexenio. Socrates initially worked as a stonemason, and there
Power can be extremely corruptive. When a person is given a certain amount of power they start to feel like they can do anything they’d like with it, and many tend to abuse of it. Zimbardo talks about how people are most likely to do “evil” when they are given power without the responsibility of the damage it will make. During an experiment, one person was chosen to be a teacher and the other a student, the teacher had to shock the student when they’d get the answer wrong and reward them if correct. During this experiment the more wrong answers, the shock would increase. It got to a point where one student started to yell for help, he wanted them to stop because he had heart problems and the teacher told Stanley Milgram, who conducted this
Zeno of Citium was born in 335 BC in a greek colony known as Kition but when latinized is called Citium. His father was a merchant named Mnaseas. Zeno studied in Athens. He studied under Polemo, Stiplo, and Crates. While he was studying under Stilpo he wrote his Republic. The
In thinking of Socrates we must recognize that what we have is four secondhand sources depicting him. That of Plato, Xenophanes, Aristophanes, and Aristotle. All having radically different accounts on Socrates and his views. Out of all them we consider Plato’s to be the most possible account, even though we face a problem of different versions of Socrates. The existence and continual study of Socrates’ philosophy regardless of differing accounts is astonishing in itself since it survived not through the specific philosopher, but through other people. Which is a testament of the impact that a man, such as Socrates, can make. When we think of Plato, who is regarded as a father of western philosophy, we are quick to think of his major work The Republic, his student Aristotle, and his writing on Socrates. (We think of his writings on Socrates as mere footnotes in philosophical thought without examining them.) “Nothing comes from nothing,” Parmenides proudly claimed, and this philosophical doctrine applies to Plato’s thought.
“ Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on”. Zeno was helpful to others as well as himself. He taught many different ways but soctism was his main way. Zeno was considered one of the best philosophers to
Zeno is well known as the inventor of the dialectic and considered as a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Zeno of Elea is famous for having for paradoxes that concerned on the philosophical problems regarding the motion, and plurality. Zeno created 3 paradoxes regarding motion.
We have words that distinguish night and day, hours, time, places, future, past, and present; so I think that because we have the ability to use these terms and we do all the time, they clearly do exist. Parmenides and Zeno refute that there is any change, time or motion. I do not agree. We as human beings continue to move forward Zeno spent his time figuring out how to keep proving Parmenides right. He says