Essays on Brickhouse

Introduction

Socrates is one of the legends in the Greek academic history and his legacy is explained in the elaborative works of his disciple Plato. Plato’s writings about various aspects of Socrates give the academicians of the world a platform to understand how Socrates developed his moral values and epistemology. However, Socrates’ viewpoint towards accepting the decision of the jury in two of Plato’s finest works name 'Crito' and 'Apology' sound rather polemic to most of the philosophers in the world and they term it as Socrates’ hypocrisy. The story of Apology told by Socrates at his trial ...

In the apology, Socrates is accused of various charges. The charges arose due to his ``teachings” and ``way of life”. The first charge is Socrates being a ``natural Philosopher.” During his time, people in Greece lived in an archaic society where ruling class regarded themselves as gods and everything were to be carried out in reference to them. The ruling class thus formed the opinion that Socrates was attempting to destroy the traditions that formed the basis of this practice and ``belief” (Plato, pg20). The second charge is the ability by Socrates to formulate a strong argument to convince people. Socrates ...

Philosophy

Although the utility of so extensive a doubt is not readily apparent, nevertheless its greatest utility lies in freeing us of all prejudices. The first mediation that Rene Descartes encounters is the mediation on what can be considered and called into doubt. He explains how some years back he had been struck the shocking revelation on how many false things he had believed and were false. He establishes the connection between what the mind believes and their true nature. He explains that we should not completely believe in whatever that comes across our mind or believe on those who deceive ...

According to Socratic philosophy, a person is born with full knowledge of everything that they need to know. The experiences they go through only serve as a revelation of what they already knew. This therefore implies that there is nothing new on the face of the earth and that man is born with the knowledge of their life and events that follow. Relating this to assisted suicide, which has been a topic of debate of whether it is right or not, we realize that a person is endowed with the power to make and implement decisions (Gorsuch, 2009). The Socratic method of reasoning ...