Who was Socrates?
Point 3: A good person cannot be harmed by others
The real person (the essence of the human) cannot be harmed by people of ill will. The harm done on the soul comes from yourself. It cannot be done by others.
Point 1: The unexamined life is not worth living
Many are so focused on becoming "successful" that they have ignored the importance of who they are and who they're trying to become. Life for many is lived on a minimal level and thinking never rises above practical concerns
Point 2: the most important task in life is never caring for the soul
The soul/psyche is the essence of humanness, the capacity to reason and reflect. Socrates believes everyone has a soul from above that drops into a body when born then when dead, goes back up only to drop into another body. Socrates and Plato both believe this.
There are 3 key points to Socrates teachings
o The unexamined life is not worth living o The most important task in life is caring for the soul. o A good person cannot be harmed by others.
Sophists
pay them to teach your kids and kids will e successful in politics when they grow up. Socrates wasn't considered a sophist because he didn't get paid and wasn't promising in his teaching.
Who was Socrates?
• Socrates believes he is just like his parents in what he does. Midwife not by helping deliver babies, but by delivering new ideas. Sculptor also by sculpting philosophical ideas.
Who was Socrates?
• Socrates died in the hands of his own people. He was viewed as a threat. Charged with 2 things: corrupting the youth and not being faithful to the Gods of Athens
Who was Socrates?
• Socrates is the search for wisdom. Executed for teaching about Gods other than Gods of Athens, died at age 70 in year 399 BC. He believed he was soon to find wholeness and be healed of the spiritual infirmities and limitations of this earthly life. His father was a sculpture and mother was a midwife. Socrates was wise in understanding "I neither know nor think that I know."
Who was Socrates?
• Socrates stood in front of a jury of 500 and tried to explain why he is questioning everything is because the Oracle of Delta claimed God said Socrates himself was the wisest. So he made that his mission to prove that and see if its true. Socrates was expected to fall in front of the trial and turn on his ways of pleading. Instead he says he will continue his ways and in fact they should be paying him! He tells them that he is the wisest because the Gods have given that to him and they need to change their way. Jury doesn't appreciate this and sentenced him to death to where he dies 30 days later by drinking a cup of poison.
Who was Socrates?
• Upon hearing he is the wisest, he makes it his mission to test this. He must find someone that is wiser than him. He philosophies this by dialoging and asking questions. He's disappointed to find he is the wisest of all he's talked to because he understands that he isn't wise where everyone else thinks their wise when they aren't.