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As Eryximachus goes even further in his extension of his own expertise, however, claiming that "in music, in medicine, in all other things human as which as divine, both loves ought to be noted as far as may be, for they are both present" -- that his knowledge applies to everything human divine -- suggests that this is exactly the type of ignorance and foolishness Socrates warned of.
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Socrates' wisdom, as he explains in Plato's apology, comes from the fact that he understands and acknowledges where his knowledge is lacking, which is almost everywhere, and thus that he pursues knowledge and truth with ongoing inquiry rather than with accepting false answers and assuming false knowledge. As Plato has him say, " and so I go my way,...
Will that be agreeable to you?" This type of sophistry and logical rigor could be said to have nothing to do with love, which seems to exceed logic's realm, and this might run counter to Socrates' claim of acknowledged ignorance.
Abstract Plato’s concepts of art and aesthetics encompass the core elements of his philosophical principles. Specifically, Plato shows how art becomes an imitation of an imitation: a clear reference to the philosopher’s concept of forms. Within Plato’s philosophy of art being nothing more than an imitation of an imitation is a value judgment, because Plato proposes that anything that is an imitation is also something that distracts and distorts reality. In
Wall, Tapies, and Goldin: Photography and Painting From the Theoretical Perspective of Susan Sontag The relationship between photography and painting, according to Susan Sontag, is that neither is really "capturing" the world that each attempts to depict. Rather they are capturing or depicting a perspective and the reality remains elusive. They are, in other words, projections of the artist's viewpoint; they are filtered through a particular zeitgeist -- and it is
Matrix, a 1999 film, the Wachowski brothers depict several interrelated and overlapping realities and thereby pose complex philosophical, ontological questions. The filmmakers urge the audience to believe that the world of the matrix -- in which Zion exists -- is "real," whereas the world we live in is an illusion. By doing so, the Wachowski brothers imply that the world in which we live might also be one in
Ginzburg and Davis A Look into Microhistory Thanks to notable figures like Carlo Ginzburg when he first emerged onto to the scene in the mid-1970's, micro-history has seen long-lasting popularity. The 1970's heralded the emergence of micro-history as it coincided with post-modernism, another historiographical development, a period that deeply challenged the profession and brought it to another intellectual level of exploration. Since micro-history relies on narrative, there are no historian-driven "Why?" questions,
Creation Myth Analysis Case Study of the History of Biblical Creation Narratives What Is Myth? What Is History? Manetho Josephus Jeroboam Is Genesis 1:1-2:4 Myth? Is Genesis 1:1-2:4 History? Is Genesis 1:1-2:4 Both Myth and History? An Analysis of the Biblical Creation Narrative of Genesis 1:1-25 and Egypt's Possible Influence on the Historical Record God created the world in just six days, and rested on the seventh, but scholars have not rested at all over the millennia in their investigation of