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Socrates in relation to Plato's "Last Days of Socrates"
Title: Socrates in relation to Plato's "Last Days of Socrates"
Category: Social Sciences / Philosophy
Details: Words: 2740 | Pages: 11.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Socrates in relation to Plato's "Last Days of Socrates"
Socrates is one of the most influential philosophers of all time. Plato captured, in the Socratic dialogues, Socrates' method that later became the model for the modern scientific method. He has influenced, in one way or another, every philosopher to come after him; whether it is directly, like Plato and Aristotle, or indirectly, like John Rawls. Socrates has affected practically every area of philosophy as well: philosophy of nature, political philosophy, and many others. Socrates …showed first 75 words of 2740 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2740 total…which Socrates outright disobeyed the state: once, when at the trial of the generals, the government chose a group trial rather than an individual trial that was prescribed by law; and once when the Oligarchy of the Thirty issued an order for the arrest of Leon of Salamis, planning to execute him without benefit of a fair trial. Socrates refused to participate in the second act, even though he was commanded to by the state.
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