What Does Socrates Fear In Death
LITERATURE TERM PAPER
SOCRATES
NO FEAR IN DEATH
[Type the author name]
4/15/2014
Socrates did not choose to begin now at 70 years old and make choices which would have been contrary to who he was. He believed living long doesn’t matter, living well does. He lived a good, just, and ethical life and was poor because his life was spent on more noble things of the search of true wisdom, not of earthly self-pleasures of physical matters. He was the father of Philosophy and roamed the Athens’ Agora speaking, teaching, and asking questions of real wisdom, a kind of soul searching. He had many pupils and would seek others to find any true meaning of true knowledge. He felt like he didn’t know all things and questioned those who …show more content…
“Be sure that this is what the god orders me to do, and I think there is no greater blessing for the city than my service to the god. For I go around doing nothing but persuading both young and old among you not to care for your body or your wealth in preference to or as strongly as for the best possible state of the soul.” (Apology 30 b) His quest and time spent led him to be poor, not prosperous as others. The life he led was seen as radical and strange so he was unpopular by many who were the majority who lived for self-pleasuring pursuits and wealth in their lives. He pursued matters of the soul, which are eternal and the body is physical, as is almost everything else, except God. He was the wisest man on earth and even the oracle of Delphos had prophesized it. He had many pupils and followers who also later became masters of Philosophy, as Plato. There doesn’t seem to be any inconsistencies in what Socrates taught of the nature of Philosophy as care for the soul and Philosophy as practice for …show more content…
States that “Forms” are transcendent to our own world. Our Soul knows forms, so the care of the soul is the greatest endeavor. Highest form of being lives here, in the soul. (Socrates taught of a world of ideal forms, to his students-like PLATO which wrote of its theory, so we give him the actual credit.)
3.) PLATO, FIVE DIALOGUES. (EUTHYPHRO,APOLOGY,CRITO,MENO,&PHAEDO) Origin: Ancient Greek. Translated in English by: Professor G.M.A. GRUBE (1981) Excerpt from-PHAEDO,66 e. “If we are ever to have pure knowledge, we must escape from the body and observe matters in themselves within the soul by itself.”
4.) Oxford Journals: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4139805. Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol.73,No.2-pp.460 (Jun.,2005) MYTH AND PHILOSOPHY, Author: Rui Zhu. ‘The Greek way has always been a form of story-telling, as all Philosophers. They share similarities of wisdom and fantasy as they have been rooted from the Great Epics like of
SOCRATES
NO FEAR IN DEATH
[Type the author name]
4/15/2014
Socrates did not choose to begin now at 70 years old and make choices which would have been contrary to who he was. He believed living long doesn’t matter, living well does. He lived a good, just, and ethical life and was poor because his life was spent on more noble things of the search of true wisdom, not of earthly self-pleasures of physical matters. He was the father of Philosophy and roamed the Athens’ Agora speaking, teaching, and asking questions of real wisdom, a kind of soul searching. He had many pupils and would seek others to find any true meaning of true knowledge. He felt like he didn’t know all things and questioned those who …show more content…
“Be sure that this is what the god orders me to do, and I think there is no greater blessing for the city than my service to the god. For I go around doing nothing but persuading both young and old among you not to care for your body or your wealth in preference to or as strongly as for the best possible state of the soul.” (Apology 30 b) His quest and time spent led him to be poor, not prosperous as others. The life he led was seen as radical and strange so he was unpopular by many who were the majority who lived for self-pleasuring pursuits and wealth in their lives. He pursued matters of the soul, which are eternal and the body is physical, as is almost everything else, except God. He was the wisest man on earth and even the oracle of Delphos had prophesized it. He had many pupils and followers who also later became masters of Philosophy, as Plato. There doesn’t seem to be any inconsistencies in what Socrates taught of the nature of Philosophy as care for the soul and Philosophy as practice for …show more content…
States that “Forms” are transcendent to our own world. Our Soul knows forms, so the care of the soul is the greatest endeavor. Highest form of being lives here, in the soul. (Socrates taught of a world of ideal forms, to his students-like PLATO which wrote of its theory, so we give him the actual credit.)
3.) PLATO, FIVE DIALOGUES. (EUTHYPHRO,APOLOGY,CRITO,MENO,&PHAEDO) Origin: Ancient Greek. Translated in English by: Professor G.M.A. GRUBE (1981) Excerpt from-PHAEDO,66 e. “If we are ever to have pure knowledge, we must escape from the body and observe matters in themselves within the soul by itself.”
4.) Oxford Journals: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4139805. Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol.73,No.2-pp.460 (Jun.,2005) MYTH AND PHILOSOPHY, Author: Rui Zhu. ‘The Greek way has always been a form of story-telling, as all Philosophers. They share similarities of wisdom and fantasy as they have been rooted from the Great Epics like of