EDUC 100W Study Guide - Eudoxus Of Cnidus, Nicomachean Ethics, Intellectual Virtue
16 Dec 2012
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Natural philosophers say a wise/educated person is one who knows the truth about the things natural. Sophists taught young boys how to agrue persuasively. Children starting at a young agecommunicating is always a good technique in life. Socrates says the educated person is one who knows their limits, or what they don"t know. Socrates says dialoguetalking b/w speakers reveal a truthand has knowledge. Plato defines education as: leading another from their belief and knowledge. ~metaphor: we uneducated people are like chains in cavewe see shadows and we think they are real thingsbut education leads outside the cave and into the bright light plato"s apology. Apology in greek means: a defence, and in this writing, it"s about socrates" defending himself. Apparently the prophecy of delphi says he is wisest of all men, but socrates states that he must be the wisest, by knowing nothing (doesn"t mean that he doesn"t know anything.
