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Classic Philosophy - Plato
Plato's Apology:
Socrates' accusers most probably asked for the death penalty because they actually sought to ensure his banishment instead. In Athens, it was customary for the accused and prosecutors to impose a harsher penalty than actually desired and for the accused to argue for leniency after conviction. In that scheme, banishment was an appropriate alternative to a death sentence.
Socrates purposely asks for alternatives that are absurd, such as lifelong support by the state to ensure that he continues performing his benefit to society and later, a fine of only three-hundred drachmas. By proposing excessively lenient alternatives, Socrates ensures that he will receive the death sentence because, ordinarily, the accused received the lesser alternative punishment.
Socrates does not fear death because he realizes it either results in eternal non-existence (which is nothing to fear) or in the reunion with already dead heroes such as Homer and Odysseus (which is nothing to fear either). In fact, Socrates regards death as a blessing because of its freedom from worry and anxiety. According to Socrates, fear of death is ignorant and he refuses to resort to emotional appeals to spare his life. He is committed to the adjudication of his guilt or innocence exclusively through rational arguments grounded in truth and the logical validity of the arguments themselves.
Plato's Republic:
Epistemologically, Socrates believed that all of us are born with comprehensive knowledge of everything within us and that what we refer to as "knowledge" is merely the Recollection of what we already knew when our souls lived in reality. Socrates differentiates philosophers from non-philosophers by virtue the commitment of the former to perceiving the facts of reality and limiting their mental processes to logical and rational argument instead of subjective (or otherwise limited) perceptions such as those illustrated by the Cave allegory. According to Socrates, art is merely a copy (or a copy of a copy) of reality with which philosophers ought not to concern themselves.
In principle, Socrates would argue against the position that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. To Socrates, even beauty is a rationally-defined objective measure, such as illustrated by his comments about the importance of limb symmetry in the human form. To Socrates, reality and art have little to do with one another at all.
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Plato -- Life and Works Plato was born in Athens circa 425 BC, just after the onset of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta. He lost his father at an early age, but through his mother's marriage to a friend of the leading statesman and general of Athens at the time, Plato became affiliated with some of the most influential circles of a city enjoying a Golden Age. The early
Finally, Socrates comes to the idea of knowledge as true judgment accompanied by "an account," meaning evidence or reason. In this context, knowledge would mean not only believing something true, but also having a reasonable justification for that belief; in other words, this definition proposes that knowledge means knowing a true thing and knowing why that thing is true. However, even here Socrates has a problem with the definition,