PHL 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Socratic Method, Sophist, Relativism
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My good friendare you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for the fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of the soul? . Socrates taught plato and plato taught aristotle who tutored alexander the great. Socrates knows he doesn"t know everything, which is what makes him wise. Relativism: man is the measure of all things. Sophists used argument and rhetoric to win court cases, not discover truth. Sophists saw conventional morality and religion as instruments of. To benefit from a conversation with socrates: control. Understand that an attack on your belief isn"t an attack on you. Philosophy isn"t personal, it"s about discovering the truth. Example: i like gold because it has value. It doesn"t have value because you like it but because it holds properties that make it valuable. My opinion above didn"t matter because i"m irrelevant to whether or not it has value.
