PHIL 181 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Intellectualism, Junzi, Sophist
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For if you suppose that by killing human beings you will prevent someone from reproaching you for not living correctly, you do not think nobly. Socrates on trial for his life for corrupting the youth and not believing in the gods. People who confused socrates with the sophists (people who take money to teach people to argue correctly smooth talk and rhetorical trickery to allow people to win arguments with weaker reasoning) Mystique around philosophy distinction between philosophy (search for truth) and sophistry (making clever arguments so you can get payed) Socrates" apology - doesn"t apologize more of a defense. Explanation of how he got this way and why everyone hates him develops into theory of virtue and wisdom. Socrates realizes that he is the wisest because he does not know that he is the wisest (he knows that he doesn"t know shit.
