POLI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Socratic Method, Eupolis, Misys
1 Oct 2016
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Plato"s teacher everything we know about socrates is through other people. He was a soldier for athens and served as a hoplite known for bravery. Fought at potidaea, delium, amphipolis, three major battles in the. Peloponnesian war (3 of the most important battles in this war) Hoplite force were the front line, pay for their own weapons, fight in close formations as to protect everyone with their shield. She probably actually spoke her mind, and was intelligent, and didn"t like that he didn"t have a job. The socratic problem: disentangling the real socrates from the literary character of. Main sources on socrates: plato (student), aristophanes (greek comic playwright), xenophon (student) Socrates appears radically different according to all of these sources! Socrates is a buffoon who runs the thinker, worships the clouds, and teaches all sorts of dubious and funny things. The clouds=false gods, convince children to beat their parents into submission.
