Essays on Socrates

In the dialogue “Gorgias”, by Plato; it speaks of justice, power, and temperance. This dialogue further speaks to the reader on how rhetorical and dialectic methods can influence one’s philosophy, and ideas on how society should work. In this paper I will be discussing how...

In the Crito, Socrates comes to find himself in some trouble. He is in his prison cell waiting for his execution, he has been charged with corrupting the youth, and questioning the gods. Crito who is a good friend of Socrates comes to visit him...

Wisdom is defined as the ability to think and make good judgment. In other words, wisdom is the quality of being wise. Wisdom is a great thing, always resulting in awareness. Genuine astuteness originates from knowing the enormous aspect of things throughout everyday life. To...

As technology increases so does the usage of social media, with the various platforms and the infinite number of opinions it is difficult to differentiate reality and illusions especially in psychology (Benjafield, 2015). Both Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and Socrates’ Limits of Knowledge relates...

In philosophy, providing an exact definition of not only philosophy itself but many other concepts as well, can be rather challenging. With human knowledge constantly expanding, and humans having different outlooks on things, philosophy and its branches can all be seen differently. To continue, philosophy...

In this paper, we will discuss the major achievements these two famous philosophers made in the development and change of the Western philosophy. They seemed to agree widely on most topics as they both were moving forward to change their world and introduce new ideas...

Intellectual autonomy is the act of thinking for oneself. The conception of enculturation and intellectual autonomy are organized with two basic ideas that represent universal human needs and culturally defined constructs at the same time. Autonomy deals with the responsibility of control for one’s life....