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- 101: Greek Gods
- ... was something just as simple as that the fact that the sky is blue is simple to us. The strength of these preconceived ideas can be seen in Strepsiades s words while he argues with Socrates in Aristophanes s The Clouds: STREPSIADES: What on earth - ! You mean you don t believe in Zeus? SOCRATES: Zeus? Who s Zeus? STREPSIADES: Zeus who lives on Olympus, of course. SOCRATES: Now really, you should know better. There is no Zeus. STREPSIADES: What? Well, who sends the rain, then? Answer me that. In General the Greeks respected and feared their gods because they understood that ...
- 102: Greek Gods
- ... was something just as simple as that the fact that the sky is blue is simple to us. The strength of these preconceived ideas can be seen in Strepsiades’s words while he argues with Socrates in Aristophanes’s The Clouds: STREPSIADES: "What on earth - ! You mean you don’t believe in Zeus?" SOCRATES: "Zeus? Who’s Zeus?" STREPSIADES: "Zeus who lives on Olympus, of course." SOCRATES: "Now really, you should know better. There is no Zeus." STREPSIADES: "What? Well, who sends the rain, then? Answer me that." In General the Greeks respected and feared their gods because they understood that ...
- 103: The Code of Hammurabi
- ... evolved with legal positivism, along with man's ability to distinguish between the spheres of the secular and vernacular. To prove these points, I also intend to explore Hammurabi's codification of natural law, and Socrates' interpretation of the state of legal positivism in ancient Greece. Although misguided, the ancient Egyptians systemically subscribed their lives to divine authority and law. This is due to their culture's unique co-habitation of ... indicate a primal grasp of the nature of human rights. It is from ancient Athenian society, and the imperialism of positivist belief, that the United States has shaped our own legal philosophy of ontological liberalism. Socrates, an Athenian scholar, philosopher, and retrospectively one of the greatest thinkers in history, became a willing martyr for the cause of positivism, never knowing that his death served an opposite purpose, signaling the over indulgence ... example of positivism stretched to its limits, without the provision for human rights that should accompany a legal system so evolved. In Athenian law, religion has been removed from the proceedings of the state. In Socrates' own words, in fact, he owes his very existence to the polis; What complaint have you to make against us which justifies you in attempting to destroy us and the state? In the first ...
- 104: Jacques Louis David
- ... and rationalism of approach. David's reputation was made by the Salon of 1784. In that year he produced his first masterwork, The Oath of the Horatii (Louvre). This work and his celebrated Death of Socrates (1787; Metropolitan Mus.) as well as Lictors Bringing to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons (1789; Louvre) were themes appropriate to the political climate of the time. They secured for David vast popularity and success ... and austerity. Seldom have paintings so completely typified the sentiment of an age as David's The Oath of the Horatii (Louvre, Paris, 1784), Brutus and his Dead Sons (Louvre, 1789), and The Death of Socrates (Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1787). They were received with acclamation by critics and public alike. Reynolds compared the Socrates with Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling and Raphael's Stanze, and after ten visits to the Salon described it as `in every sense perfect'. David was in active sympathy with the Revolution, becoming a Deputy ...
- 105: Modern Philosophy
- ... Sophist, Protagoras, maintained that no person's opinions can be said to be more correct than another's, because each is the sole judge of his or her own experience. Plato, following his illustrious teacher Socrates, tried to answer the Sophists by postulating the existence of a world of unchanging and invisible forms, or ideas, about which it is possible to have exact and certain knowledge. The things one sees and ... exists; that if anything does exist, human beings could not know it; and that if they did know it, they could not communicate that knowledge. Other Sophists, such as Thrasymachus, believed that might makes right. Socrates opposed the Sophists. His philosophical position, as represented in the dialogues of his pupil Plato, may be summarized as follows: virtue is knowledge; people will be virtuous if they know what virtue is; and vice, or evil, is the result of ignorance. Thus, according to Socrates, education can make people moral. Ethics Since Darwin The scientific development that most affected ethics after the time of Newton was the theory of evolution advanced by Charles Darwin. Darwin's findings provided documentary ...
- 106: The Philosopher, Aristotle
- ... those trained in rhetoric. Therefore those who taught this art stood to obtain a lot of wealth from their endeavors. These were known as sophists with whom much contempt was held by such philosophers as Socrates. "The greatest school of Rhetoric in all Greece was at this period held in Athens by the renowned Isocrates, who was at the zenith of his reputation."(Collins p. 11) A competitor with this school ... Macedonians held much contempt for Aristotle because of his simple orientation with Alexander and the Empire. As a result Aristotle was forced to flee Athens when he was indicted for charges similar to those against Socrates years before. Aristotle's reason for leaving was said to be "in order that the Athenians might not have another opportunity of sinning against philosophy, as they had already done once in the person of Socrates."(Collins p.26) He left for the city of Chalcis were he sought temporary refuge and planned to return to Athens following the expected re-invasion by Macedonia. Fate had something different in mind ...
- 107: Origins Of Communism
- ... things in common.” But for obvious reasons, this system could never work on a larger scale. The idea gained momentum in late 5th century Greece when Plato recorded his predecessor’s dialogue in The Republic. Socrates outlines two types of communism in his dialogue. The first was a “utopian” communism which basically describes a peasant society not complicated by luxuries. He goes on to say that such a society would work ... away with the hardships caused by a wealthy ruling class. Plato then goes on to lay out a community in which wealth and power is separated, factoring social class out of the ruling equation. But Socrates argues the impracticality of Plato’s system being introduced to an Aristocratic Greece. Over a thousand years later and over a thousand of miles away, Sir Thomas Moore wrote Utopia. An assessment of modern political ... that passed through time as well as boundaries. Through thousands of years and thousands of miles, Communism has survived. It was a journey traveled by many, but only a few have survived. The survivors: Plato, Socrates, Babeuf, Fourier, Owen, Blanc, Hegel, Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, and all of the others that line the pages of history books. They are those who were able to advance a system that was ...
- 108: The Republic: Morality and Immorality
- ... moral is impossible, but to throw away morality is to throw away the human soul. On the other hand, many show that immorality has its advantages materialistically, but not realizing the dangers of being immoral. Socrates was one of the most influential philosophers, and his views on morality and immorality are equally beneficial, depending on the views and actions of people. There are many instance when moral conduct could be considered ... person that is immoral thinks of himself or herself as superior to everyone, making that one of many reasons they are considered immoral. Thus, bringing a better acknowledgement of the difference between moral and immoral. Socrates proves that justice brings unity to any group of people, since it allows them to trust and rely on each other. He points out that the gods are just, so an unjust person is their ... just person's desires are satisfied, since their rational parts limits their desires, whereas the unjust person's desires are rampant and out of control. In conclusion, I would have to agree and disagree with Socrates, for all people are immoral and they strive to become moral, but no one person is ever truly moral, although it is favorable for a person to strive towards morality and value it. On ...
- 109: Jacques Louis David
- ... and rationalism of approach. David's reputation was made by the Salon of 1784. In that year he produced his first masterwork, The Oath of the Horatii (Louvre). This work and his celebrated Death of Socrates (1787; Metropolitan Mus.) as well as Lictors Bringing to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons (1789; Louvre) were themes appropriate to the political climate of the time. They secured for David vast popularity and success ... and austerity. Seldom have paintings so completely typified the sentiment of an age as David's The Oath of the Horatii (Louvre, Paris, 1784), Brutus and his Dead Sons (Louvre, 1789), and The Death of Socrates (Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1787). They were received with acclamation by critics and public alike. Reynolds compared the Socrates with Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling and Raphael's Stanze, and after ten visits to the Salon described it as `in every sense perfect'. David was in active sympathy with the Revolution, becoming a Deputy ...
- 110: Justice In Plato Vs. Justice I
- ... a communities sub-units, philosophy, the separation of public and private life, truth, as well as no movement. In Plato's Republic, justice is defined in many different ways, none of which seem to keep Socrates content. Cephalus insisted that justice was telling the truth and paying one's debts. Polemarchus, Cephalus' son, maintained that justice was paying one's dues. Socrates refuted their argument by using a mad man as an example. He proved that if one man borrowed another man's knife and the owner of the knife went mad, it would not be just ... to all or even be in the worst interest of some. Some officials would make laws to simply benefit their own interests. At one point Thrasymachus said that perfect injustice pays better than perfect justice. Socrates changed Thrasymachus' mindset by making him agree that justice was goodness and knowledge and injustice their opposites. Plato argues that a just state is achieved in a situation in which everyone does one's ...
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