PHIL 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Thrasymachus, Sophist, Self-Awareness

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Philosophy (PHIL)
• Course: PHIL 001
• Professor: cline

Document Summary

Outer and inner worlds of nature and human beings. Socrates physical appearance was ugly but his knowledge and outlook made him beautiful. What is perceived by the senses and understood by the mind. Convention the source of right and wrong. Man is the measure of all things . Living with less but asking more of oneself. Values temperance (ability to know how to react when things go wrong with external goods) and courage (ability to how you respond to danger and how scared you should be. Virtues are cultivated from within-not something acquired externall. Focuses on taking care of the soul, not on what is external to it. Capacity for reflexive thinking, enabling one to turn inward and examine the self and life. The soul is ones intellectual and moral personhood . Living with less but asking more of ourselves. Socrates values virtues such as temperance and courage.