Transcript Socrates 2008

His words were recorded by Plato, his most
famous pupil.
He was highly critical
of sophists.
He saw himself as
horsefly/gadfly, stinging
Athens to life.
He went barefoot in
the winter.
His wife was annoyed that he would not
teach for money.
Sources about Socrates
• Aristophanes:
• Xenophon:
Views of Socrates
• Socrates was not…
• Socrates was the
source of…
The Natural Philosophers focused on…
Sophists & Socrates focused
on…
Protagoras (5 Items)
Gorgias (3 Items)
THE SOPHISTS
Theory of Knowledge:
Intellectual Midwifery
• What is a midwife?
–So what is
Intellectual
Midwifery?
–Arete?
• What is dialectic?
• Euthyphro:
– The Scene:
Euthyphro: What is Piety?
• Euthyphro’s First
Answer:
• Euthyphro’s Second
Answer:
• Socrates Objection:
• Socrates Objection:
Euthyphro: What is Piety?
• Euthyphro’s Third
Answer:
• Socrates
Changes Track:
Definition According
to Socrates
• Socrates approach to knowledge is…
• Definition for Socrates was a…
– Example: Even though PARTICULAR events
and things have some variation or have
passed away, there is something GENERAL
about them that is the same.
Definition
According to
Socrates #2
• It was this permanent meaning that
Socrates was after when he asked
“What is Piety?”
– Idea of Justice
– Idea of Beauty
– Idea of Goodness
• Example: No one thing is…
“Apology” Background
• After Spartan win in
Peloponnesian War,
Athenian democracy weak
• Thirty Tyrants
• Socrates associated with
two of them
• Socrates had remained in
city (suspicious)
• Athens weary of
intellectuals