PHIL6007 Final: Philosophy-Lecture-Notes
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Socrates on evil and ignorance (page 52 read kant. Again: socrates lived 469 399 bce; and spent just about his entire life unemployed in. Athens before being condemned and put to death for seeking to replace athenian. Gods with gods of his own, and corrupting the youth: our primary source of information about his views comes from early dialogues of. Other sources include xenaphon"s memorabilia and aristophanes play. In aristophanes play (first presented in 423) socrates appears as someone with a raft of scientific theories replacing traditional gods with natural forces, and as a sophist. A sophist is someone who charged fees to teach students how to manipulate arguments to their advantage, especially in a court of law. This no doubt leaves out much of socrates" character and his views: plato"s early dialogues offer the most persuasive portrait of the historical socrates, but there is considerable difficulty distinguishing plato"s views from socrates.
