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Showing 1 to 20 of 90 for “"Socrates"”.
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Socrates' Simile of the Cave
Socrates has been widely understood as trying to find a master key to the world of Being, which is distinct from the world of appearances. His question is taken to be a request for a universal definition, which holds the key. However, the notions like "the other world" or "the universal definition" …
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A Solution to "The Problem of Socrates" in Nietzsche's Thought: An Explanation of Nietzsche's Ambivalence Toward Socrates
Nietzsche's view of Socrates has been studied at length by a number of scholars, and yet the accounts resulting from these studies, even when descriptively correct, have not given a full explanation of the relationship between the two philosophers. More specifically, they fail to clarify the proper …
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Jesus, Socrates, and the State: Political Mythology and Power
… greater glory of God and man, namely, Jesus and Socrates. We will explore the creation of the myths surrounding Socrates and Jesus as heroes (in Campbell's sense of the <em>monomyth<em>) and the gifts which each gives to the world (i.e. their consonant messages of egalitarian rule, equality of …
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Socrates' Conception of Knowledge and the Priority of Definition
Throughout the early Platonic dialogues, Socrates repeatedly tells his interlocutors that if, as they claim, they truly have knowledge concerning some morally significant property, then they should be able to define the nature of that property. Invariably, the interlocutors fail to furnish him with …
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The relationship of virtue of happiness in Socrates’ moral theory
… the relationship of virtue to happiness in Socrates 'moral theory. The focus of my enquiry is a debate between Gregory Vlastos and Terence Irwin in which Vlastos claims that Socrates holds component view of the relationship of virtue to happiness, and Irwin claims that Socrates holds an …
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Socrates café: an effective mechanism for realising a more participatory democracy?
This thesis interrogates the practices of the Socrates Café initiative since it was inaugurated nearly 13 years ago by the author of this dissertation. It seeks to critique whether Socrates Café – which strives to establish democratic communities of philosophical inquiry – has successfully embodied …
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Nietzsche and classical greek philosophy: Essays on Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Heraclitus
… is the precise nature of Nietzsche’s view of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle? I answer this question over four chapters. Each chapter is a self-contained essay that explores the contours of Nietzsche’s ambivalence toward these figures. In Chapter I I show how Nietzsche’s ambivalence toward …
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Sellars and Socrates : an investigation of the Sellars problem for a Socratic epistemology
The Sellars problem threatens the viability of epistemic foundationalism. Foundationalism claims that there are some beliefs whose justification does not depend upon other beliefs. Foundationalism is a popular, non-skeptical response to the epistemic regress problem. In this dissertation I …
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Socrates as citizen?: the implications of Socratic eros for contemporary models of citizenship
… evaluates the appropriateness of using Socrates as a model for contemporary citizenship. I examine the question of Socrates' civic character by inquiring about the relation of the philosopher (or political scientist) to the city (that is, to political life) without taking for granted …
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Oprecht veinzen. Over Kierkegaards Over het begrip ironie, vooral met betrekking tot Socrates (1841)
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Where is Socrates going? : the philosophy of conversion in Plato's "Euthydemus".
… the conflict that occurs in the dialogue between Socrates and his sophistic rivals, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, one must evaluate Socrates' overarching goal and its divergence from sophistry. The author argues, however, that a sound analysis of this dialogue must go further and understand …
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'The truth is bitter' : Socrates Scholasticus and the writing of a history of the Christian Roman empire
… observers of the period, the church historian Socrates Scholasticus. Around 440, as the western Empire crumbled, Socrates composed his monumental Church Hist01y, spanning the turbulent period 305-439. Although he wrote in the relative security of the new imperial metropolis, Constantinople, …
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Socrates, Democracy and Civic Education: A Study of the Gadfly as Guide to the Formation of Democratic Citizens
Given the fundamental tension between order and liberty in our democratic regime, this dissertation argues that a pious gadfly may be a more useful model for democratic citizenship because it better satisfies the requirements of citizenship for our democratic regime. This dissertation explores a …
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Fifth-Century Views of Conversion: A Comparison of Conversion Narratives in the Church Histories of Sozomen and Socrates Scholasticus
Sozomen and Socrates Scholasticus wrote church histories in the middle of the fifth century A.D. Each history covered the same period, from Constantine to Theodosius II. Sozomen wrote his history after Socrates' and although it tells many of the same stories, some striking dissimilarities can be …
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The Platonic Sophists Against the Sophist: Complicating the Socratic Divide
… clear bias of Plato against these competitors of Socrates, has often led scholars to read these characteristics as the target of Plato’s critique and as markers of Socrates’ superiority. </p> <p>However, by looking at Plato’s characterization of the sophists in ‘sophistic dialogues,’ such as the …
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Moral expertise and moral education : a Socratic account
… can it be taught? These questions preoccupied Socrates and this dissertation offers a Socratic answer to them. In Chapter 1 ("Virtue as Expert Moral Knowledge") I develop and defend a novel interpretation of the Socratic thesis that virtue is a kind of knowledge. I argue that the relevant kind …
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Examining the Nature of Socratic Citizenship: An Inquiry Into the Voegelinian Conception of Consciousness
<p>This thesis explores Socrates as the paradigmatic citizen through Eric Voegelin’s theory of consciousness. While scholars tend to ground the source of Socrates’ civic behavior in the self, I maintain that his<em> daimonion</em> is the very essence of his citizenship. Illustrating that spiritual …
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