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Socrates

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Total Pages: 4.36
Total Words: 1090
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Number of Sentences: 72

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Flesch Reading Ease: 60.92
Fog Scale Level: 11.45
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Socrates

Of all confrontations in political philosophy, the biggest is

the conflict between philosophy and politics. The problem remains

making philosophy friendly to politics. The questioning of authoritative

opinions is not easily accomplished nor is that realm of philosophy - the

pursuit of wisdom. Socrates was the instigator of the conflict. While the

political element takes place within opinions about political life,

Socrates asks the question "What is the best regime and how should I live?"

Ancient thought is riddled with unknowns and can make no such statement as

"how should I live." The Socratic philosophy offers an alternative and

prepares the way for the alternative of absolutes. This alternative is not

without its faults. Socratic philosophy is plagued by a destructive

element. It reduces the authoritative opinions about political life but

replaces it with nothing. This is the vital stem from which the "Apology

of Socrates" is written. Because of the stinging attack on Athenian life,

and the opinions which they revere so highly, Socrates is placed on trial

for his life.

The question now becomes why and in what manner did Socrates refute

the gods and is he quilty? Socrates, himself, speaks out the accusers

charges by saying "Socrates does injustice and is meddlesome, by

investigating the things under the earth and the heavenly things, and by

making the weaker the stronger and by teaching others these things" (Plato,

19b;c). This is the charge of the "old" accusers. It is seen from an

example in "The Clouds". Strepsiades goes to Socrates in order to learn

how to pursuade his son by "making the weaker speech the stronger"

(Aristophanes, 112). Why does Socrates remind the assembly about the old

accusers? It appears improper for a man on trial to bring about his other

'crimes'. Aristophanes, in particular, is implicated by Socrates as an old

accuser. ...

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