Socrates: The Search for self Many philosophers of the past, if they were living today, would probably be against abortion. The philosopher that I believe would be against abortion the most would be the great philosopher Socrates. To describe Socrates was a good fighting man, but his outer ap...
Ion “Axiomaticus” Saliu —'Self-portrait with red axiomatic-cap' Philosophus Maximum Maximorum "The truth is above anybody and anything." “A trustworthy man is an axiomatic man; an axiomatic man is a good man. Be axiomatic, Homo Sapiens!”– Ion Saliu Axiomaticus, 3:14, 6:18 ...
Nietzsche's View of Socrates (review) 118 HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY Hegel is replying to Hume. To be sure, Hegel does reply to Hume, but he does so only by using in a unique way a concept of the self developed and bequeathed to him by the aforementioned German idealist tradition... TS Eng...
I shared the image with the rest of the class and students were very appreciative. The concept of having parents involved in class this way is pretty exciting. But, then, the very same thought produces a sense of terror. Does this mean that everything I say might be monitored by parents?
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After the outbreak of the First World War, he entered the University of Berlin, where he continued his philosophical training. Later he obtained his doctorate at the University of Jena with the thesis on theconcept of space, which he divided into three types: space physical, intuitive space, ...
I examine here a wide array of interlocking Socratic doctrines, especially as they show up in the ideas of Socratic Ignorance and the Examined Life (asking questions every day of others and of oneself)—along with such other Socratic claims as the follow
Eudaimonia (generally translated as “happiness,”“flourishing,” or “well-being”) is a key concept in ancient Greek ethical and political philosophy. This chapter explores eudaimonic well-being insights from the Greek wisdom...
and conclude that misology as Socrates intends the concept is an emotional reaction to argumentation on the part of persons who have not acquired the logical dialectical skills or will to sort out good from bad arguments. We cannot dismiss argument as directed toward the truth unless we have a...
I call this modern belief “the traditional view of the history”. In this essay, I will reconsider the relation between Socrates and the sophists to clarify the issue of whether sophists were false philosophers to be criticized. My main point will be that Socrates belonged to the sophistic ...