PHIL 1F91 Lecture Notes - Late Period Of Ancient Egypt, Peloponnesian War, Irony
9 Dec 2012
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The early period (the apology, the euthyphro etc ) The middle period (the phaedo, the republic, the symposium etc ) The late period (the parmenides, the laws etc ) The historical background and context of socrates before the apology. Socrates was a citizen of athens a polis or city-state. He served as a soldier in many battles in the peloponnesian war (431-404 bc) Socrates mother was a mid-wife and socrates uses this image to understand his own philosophical method: he helps others give birth to their ideas. Socrates lived a life of poverty by choice. He was describes as a monster , a crab, pug-nosed. Socrates could only train one eye on a person; (the other eye looked in the opposite direction). What does socrates ugliness have to do with his philosophy. For the greeks, beauty and intelligence were linked. An excellent (arete) man was excellent in all areas of his character.
