![]() Socrates developed the dialectical process for The Sophists claimed to teach but they trained in technique. How was one to teach others what the GOOD is? Socrates sought an answer to that and many other questions. The true, good andīeautiful are all GOOD and united in the GOOD as ONE. Other people see the GOOD as different from X.įurther, Socrates held that all virtue is one! Virtue is GOOD. So P chooses X out of ignorance of what is truly GOOD as Soul "volunteers" or wills to do the GOOD. P does X because people always choose what they think isįor Socrates the soul always goes to the GOOD. Unless and until P stops thinking of X as a GOOD P willĬontinue to do X. ![]() So P thinks that X will in some way make a good for P. X is fun or releaves pain or will bring money or Person P does X anyway because person P thinks that X is Person P knows that OTHER PEOPLE think that act X is WRONG Wrong doer accepts that then the wrong doer will stop doing that act. When the wrong doer comes to understandĪnd to know why the OTHER PEOPLE think of the act as being wrong and the The wrong doer then the wrong doer will continue to do the act that isĬonsidered wrong by OTHER PEOPLE. It is wrong but that the wrong doer does not accept that and does notĪgree because the wrong doer sees some benefit or good result for theĪs long as the wrong doer continues to see some benefit or good result for The theory is that people who do wrong know that OTHER PEOPLE think that Socrates theory does NOT claim that people who do wrong do think that it Socrates theory does NOT claim that people who do wrong do not know that They will continue to do the evilĪcts unless and until they no longer think of them as good. When they choose what other people callĮvil it is because they do not agree. Given options humans will choose the options They do it because they mistake the evil actįor a good act in some way. If the wrong doers understood why the act was considered to be Something good in doing the evil act even if it is only good for them. Socrates held that people know that OTHER PEOPLE think that it is wrongīut they do not totally agree. Mistake and must be educated to see the error. Someone chooses to do what we think is wrong, then that person made a We always choose what we think is the best or good for us. If people knew what was the right thing to do they would do Socrates believed that no one does wrong voluntarily. The soul chooses what it thinks is the Good but it isn’t the soulĭoers must be educated, instructed as to what truly is the GOOD and then The soul must choose the GOOD but only if it knows what it is. Knowledge itself is a virtue but knowledge of the GOOD and of The question was, what is the Good? What is Best? Virtue would depend on knowledge. One always chooses the best of the options available. ![]() If one knew the Good one would choose it. ![]() ![]() The key to a virtuous life was knowledge of the GOOD and this links ethics His legacy to Philosophy is ion two areas. Reasoning in the service of virtue were lasting contributions to humanity. Socrates’ theory of the soul and its virtue and the use of Quite directly in the direction of humanity, human morality and virtue and The Socratic legacy is in turning critical thought Inherits this belief, expands upon it and promulgates this belief. Unexamined life is not worth living! The best manner to examinee that life is through reasoning whichĮmploys the dialectical method of inquiry. Plato would develop the explanatory schema in which the universalĭefinition is attainable due to a process of recollection through whichĪll people can gain knowledge of what is within them, their minds fromīelieved in the universality of the inner rational being. He attempted this even at his trial and in his final days andĭialectical method as a midwife to ideas to lead others to knowledge,ĭialectical process to arrive at universal definitions. Wisdom and virtue and to care for their noblest possession, their soul,īefore all else. He wanted to persuade others to look into themselves, to seek Socrates believed that he had a mission to seek afterĪttempted to find a stable and certain truth and a wisdom that would serveĪttempted to lead others to real insight. ![]()
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