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Socrates / Was He Genuinely Religious?
In 5 pages the author discusses whether or not Socrates was genuinely religious. Based on ' 'Euthyphro', 'Apology', and 'Crito', which are works by Plato about his teacher, Socrates, could it be said that Socrates is a genuinely religious man? Why or why not? Yes, Socrates was a genuinely religious man. However, he did not share the religion of the Athenians. He was a martyr to a new, better religion.' Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Socrates and Gorgias
A 6 page paper which discusses the dialogue between Socrates and Gorgias in Plato's book 'Gorgias.' Bibliography lists 4 additional sources.
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Socrates on Love
A 5 page paper which presents a instructional example of a speech that Socrates may have given on the topic of love. Of all the things that Socrates spoke of, he did not really ever give his own theories regarding love, believing he knew nothing about love. In the work 'The Symposium' by Plato, Socrates turns to providing another's speech in describing what love is, further indicating love was something he felt incapable of describing. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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SOCRATES - Pursuit and Improvement of the soul:
(3pp) Socrates could understand the difference between the visible world and the intellectual world and believe that the mind is the cause of all things. He also believed that to truly know what is good is to do it, without separating ideas and knowledge from the lives and actions of people.
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Socrates on Life After Death
This 7 page paper looks at 'Socrates' Apology' recorded by Plato, and considers his religious views and their influence on his perception of life after death, and the way in which he present and defends these views. The second part of the paper then goes on to discuss the problem that the lack of evidence lends to this subject. Without evidence that can be accepted without the need for faith uncertainty is likely to remain and religious diversity is guaranteed to continue. The bibliography sites 1 source.
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Socrates on Piety and Ethics
This 5 page paper looks at the views of Socrates written by Plato in 'Euthyphro' and 'Crito'. The paper consider what Socrates sees as piety and justice, and the place of that as well as the role of the state and its laws. The paper concludes that Socrates main message was that the greater good was more important than that of the individual and that any individual must remain true to the greater good ads well as their own beliefs. The bibliography cites 2 sources.
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Socrates on Soul/Body Dichotomy
A 5 page essay that analyzes the changes that occurred in Socrates orientation between the Apology and the Phaedo. The writer argues that Socrates' arguments (as related by Plato) in the Phaedo culminate in Socrates expressing his belief in the immortality of the soul, a position on which he was ambiguous in the Apology. No additional sources cited.
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Socrates and Pericles: Duty to Athens
A 5 page paper which compares the attitudes and beliefs of Socrates to Pericles as they concern one's duty to the city of Athens. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Socrates & Thoreau on Democracy
A 6 page research paper that analyzes Plato's Crito, regarding the death of Socrates, and Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience, in order to defend the concept that, while both Socrates and Thoreau criticized their governments, they both still supported democracy. No additional sources cited.
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Socrates vs. Chuang-Tzu on What is More Important, Acting in One's Own Best Interest or to Obey the State
A 10 page paper which examines whether or not Socrates was right to obey his Athenian conviction of death by poison or if he should have acted to preserve his own life by escaping and going into exile, within the context of considering how Chuang-Tzu would have condemned the philosopher's choice to abide by the capital punishment of the state. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Socrates on "Love" in Plato's "Symposium"
This is a 5 page paper discussing Socrates' argument on "love" found in Plato's "Symposium". In Plato's "Symposium", Socrates refutes the claims of his companions that love is beautiful and that love is a god. To do this he uses the arguments he learned presented to him by his teacher Diotima. Through Diotima's arguments we learn that Love had a mixed mortal/immortal parentage and because of this the nature of love is not immortal or beautiful but is considered in constant flow between the world of man and that of the gods and also holds the characteristics of its parents: from his mother Poverty, Love can be poor, ugly and ignorant; and from his father Plenty, he can be enterprising, wise or a hunter. As Diotima shows to Socrates that man ultimately finds that love is the possession of everlasting good and therefore will make him happy, she also explains why man's eagerness for love is felt because of the need to procreate during the time when he is most beautiful. Despite this common desire in man, not all men desire the same things to make them happy which is further the result of Love's flexibility and ability to bond all men. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Socrates On Trial
6 pages in length. As a juror sitting on the trial of Socrates, it has become clear that this man has society's best interests at heart. The issue at hand concerns the nature of man, his behavior and how that behavior has a domino effect on everything else. The question is raised as a means by which to address man's lost quest to do the right thing, an aim that has long been both challenged and failed as far as Socrates is concerned. What makes this case particularly interesting is the extent to which his personal views are in opposition with so many of his philosophical counterparts, especially when it comes to formulating the fundamental basis of human character. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Socrates in the "Apology" and Ovid and "Metamorphoses"
A 3 page comparison of these two works and men. The author of this paper contends that there are many similarities between Ovid's "Metamorphoses" and Socrates' "Apology", not the least of which is the fact that Ovid could be said to be a recreation of Socrates, a manifestation of that "gadfly" Socrates warns of in the "Apology" which acts to stir the great steed of the Athenian state into action. While Socrates in this analogy feeds upon the blood of Athens, Ovid feeds upon the blood of Rome. No additional sources are listed.
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Socrates as Perceived by Aristophanes and Plato
A 6 page paper which examines how these individuals present two radically diverse opinions of the Greek philosopher in Aristophanes' "The Clouds" and in Plato's "Apology" and "Crito." Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Socrates - the "unexamined life"
A paper which considers in detail Socrates' assertion that the 'unexamined life is not worth living', with reference to the Apologia, Crito, Gorgias and Euthyphro. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Socrates and Euthyphro on Piety in Plato's "Euthyphro"
A 5 page paper which examines Euthyphro's attempts to answer Socrates' question, "What is the pious and what the impious, considers why Socrates finds each response unsatisfactory, explains how the "Euthyphro question" figures in the dialogue, how Euthyphro answers it, and discusses whether or not Euthyphro gives a correct answer to this question. No additional sources are used.
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