PHIL 1F90 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Soul, Socrates, Simmias Of Thebes
20 Nov 2018
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The(cid:455) all ask (cid:862)what is x(cid:863) some virtue: ostensive definition (example, essential definition i. Fails: no answer, socrates never provides an answers, they end in aporia (confusion) Cor(cid:374)ford"s three pillars: immortality of the soul, knowledge is recollection, theory of the forms/ideas. Sophists: rhetoric someone who has a certain way with words, compelling speeches, sophistry- thought to be a master of tricky reasoning, together constitute winning art of argument. Why is socrates unpopular: the charges, worshiping false gods, corrupting the youth. Impossible for him to encounter these charges at all: socrates says these charges are going to be harder to refuse, prejudice slanders- passed along through viscious mouth, socrates says it is a misunderstanding. What do athens believe about socrates: o(cid:272)rates is a (cid:862)pre- o(cid:272)rati(cid:272)(cid:863) Interested in arche- things about heaven and beneath earth believed as natural phenomenon: an atheist, a sophist, teaches the young to do the same things & corrupts them.
