SOCRATES Flashcards
He is a greek philosopher and one of the very few individual who shaped western thought.”
Socrates
He never wrote anything
Socrates
knowledge about him are form his student plato and the historian Xenophon
Socrates
Shaped wester thought
Socrates
What is the socratic method
method of inquiry in testing an idea
tested by asking a series of questions that determines underlying beliefs and the extent of knowledge to guide the person towards better understanding (Maxwell 2015)
what did he do that offended the leaders
questioning everyday views and popular athenian belief
Socrates was accused of?
impiety or lack of reverence for the gods and for corrupting the minds of the youth
At 70 years old he died because?
He was sentenced to death by drinking a cup of poison hemlock (Brickhouse and Smith, 2002)
Socrates ideas includes:
the soul is immortal
the care of the soul is a task of philosophy
Virtue is necessary to attain happiness
One of Socrates most quoted phrases
The unexamined life is not worth living
Self-knowledge (Socrates)
the examination of oneself
would open our eyes to your true nature
What should we do as a person (Socrates)
as a person we should consciously contemplate
Self-knowledge and questions about how one ought to live one’s life
These are very important concerns because only by knowing yourself can you hope to improve your life (Rappe, 2015)
What determines our quality of life
the state of our inner being (Soul/self)
What are the 2 kinds of existence?
Visible and the invisible
Visible existnce
changes
The is the state of the human being
The body
Invisible existence
Remains constant
Invisible to humans yet sensed and understood by the minds
What did Socrates said about the soul in the Socratic Dialogue?
Socrates said about the soul “when the soul and body are together nature assigned our bodies to be a slave and to be rules and the soul is the ruler and master”
Socratic Dialogue
Written by plato
What would leave the soul Confused?
the body was a reluctant slave, and the soul gets dragged toward what is always changing
True goal of life (socrates)
To be happy
The only and supreme good
A virtuous man is a happy man and that virtue alone is the one and only supreme good
What is virtue
moral excellence and an individual is considered virtuous if his/her character is made up of the moral qualities that accepted as virtues
Example of vitue
courage
temperance
prudence
