PHIL-105 FA2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Finishing School, Meletus, Sophist

• School: American University
• Department: PHIL - PHILOSOPHY
• Course: PHIL-105 FA2
• Professor: ianrhoad

Document Summary

Socrates was hideously ugly and notoriously ugly but people were attracted to him for some reason because of his high moral standing and heroic acts on the battle field. He would zone out in the middle of events and conversation. He never took money for any of philosophical advice and talks. This was how he differed himself from the sophists who were tutors of high culture and how to speak well (experts in rhetoric) Finishing school for the young men of athens. Sophical is when you feel like you are getting tricked. It helped to differentiate during his trial later on. Sophia is the root word and roughly means wisdom. Sophists were those who claimed to possess wisdom. Philo means love or friendship (loving attitude towards something) Philosophy then means a love for wisdom. Socrates was attracted to them because the sophists claimed that they have wisdom and philosophers loved wisdom.