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Proper Language Use Via The Socratic Method
2,663 wordsThe Role of Language Can contemporary discourse presume a community of interest? In order to answer this question, one is forced to first answer the question, can language be used to reveal anything new? If the answer is yes, then how can it do this and how can we employ it to do this for us. Also, one is forced to ask what is it exactly that we are looking for? Once we " ve found it, how can we use it to improve our present condition? Plato and Descartes both believe that language can indeed im...
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Only Episode Of Socrates
1,471 wordsWomen in the Apology The most striking thing about women in the Apology of Socrates is their absence from where we might expect them. Only two specific women are mentioned: 1) the Pythia, the priestess of Apollo, who answers Chaerephon's question that no one is wiser than Socrates (21 a); and 2) Thetis, the mother of Achilles (who himself is not mentioned by name but only referred to as the 'son of Thetis'), who warns him that he will die if he kills the Trojan hero Hector (28 c). Only two other...
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Socrates As An Enemy Of Democracy
6,653 wordsMuch controversy continues over Socrates's attitude towards democracy. I.F. Stone, embarrassed that the first democracy should have killed a man for exercising freedom of speech and freedom of religion, attempted to justify this by going after Socrates as an enemy of democracy (The Trial of Socrates); but since Stone was busy defending Josef Stalin back in the Thirties, and even wrote a book in 1952, the Hidden History of the Korean War, defending the communist invasion of South Korea, his own d...
