Question by omgkristennxo: Why is Socrates important to learn about today?
Socrates, born in 470, was a Greek philosopher whose way of life, character, and thought exerted a profound influence on ancient and modern philosophy. Why would he be important to learn about?
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Answer by HAHAHA Because he exerted an important influence on today. If you drop him, you basically have to drop almost everyone to be honest.
Question by shawn: What did socrates do that is important in the development of modern science?
I have to do this for socrates please help!
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Answer by blackjack432001 you ‘have to do this’? no one has to do anything that isn’t wanted (to be done). choice, my friend, is a truly human and life altering event once understood. we all have choices but first knowing yourself on a unique basis is step one. ergo, and so it goes, socrates affects us still some thousands of years after his death. he was entirely instrumental in tutoring plato who went on to ‘school’ aristocrates, etc.. like ‘whadda’ guy. one man who in turn made possible two others who did overtly change the world then and continues today. socrates never wrote a thing down or at least what we know but his student plato did and because of his famous student, we know about the man. socratic method of teaching, which i use daily, is considered the best way to learn. there’s didactic and socratic. i prefer the socratic method as it is more affirmative and best for an indelible in meaning.
so you ask why socrates is important? ask yourself one question: are you important and if the answer is yes, as it should be, then you’ve answered your own question. if you know yourself then you are on the way of knowing the world. as for the rest? i rest my case.
Question by Raul Gomez: thesis statement on Plato’s notion of the Philosopher King poses important challanges to our modern?
democratic notion in leadership. In real terms, it privileges ideology over pragmatism, and it values concepts over personal attributes such as character, experience, and courage. Can these two visions of leadership the platonic and the modern be reconciled? Are there democratically elected leaders from any nation, of the last 200 years, which could be seen as embodying the best of both models? If you think the two models are fundamentally irreconcilable, explain why.
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Answer by flamesof.wrath I like this question because the answer is what I like to call the “American Ideal”. See This nation was founded on the ideology of philosophers. it was made in such a way that with out upsetting the people philosopher can be put in charge. The thing is it started to work until politicians found out they could buy peoples votes with lies and propaganda. Now I’m not saying that the chance of people electing a philosopher is gone and we have even managed to elect some in the past, however if we the people fend off the ignorant stench of the corrupt few who simply bought office then we can reconcile and make Plato’s dream a reality.
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I’m doing a school project and i have to find quotes from ancient greek philosophers, but I’m not quite so sure who all the philosophers were. I already have aristotle and socrates but that’s it. help anyone?
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I need a list of a few ancinet greek philosophers. i only need a few, no more than 10 or 15. I just want the really important ones. thanks
