PHIL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Socratic Method

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1000
• Professor: Ingrid L.Stefanovic

Document Summary

Plato (roughly around 424 bc to 347 bc) Uses these features to have a contemporary setting. Plato and his student, aristotle, a detail from raphael"s academy. Plato points to the heaven --> other worldly being. Aristotle points down because of the world now. The founder of the academy (the name comes from akademia, a sanctuary of the goddess athena), a school for philosophical education and training of statesmen. Akademia --> associates with high class education --> sanctuary of the goddess athena. Practical elements are mixed in plato --> theoretical theories (almost like story telling but confusing) The founder of the academy (the name comes from akademia, a sanctuary of the goddess athena), a school for philosophical education and training of statement. He wrote many dialogues (around 26), in which socrates was the main character. Socrates --> the greatest philosophical in history from plato"s dialogues. The dialogues are characterized by the use of the socratic method, the so-called midwifing (elenchus).