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Socrates - Philosophical beliefs: Encyclopedia - Socrates

Socrates (June 4, ca. 470 BC – May 7, 399 BC) (Greek Σωκράτης Sōkrátēs; invariably anglicized as IPA: /'sɒkɹətiːz/ Sǒcratēs) was a Greek (Athenian) philosopher. Socrates - His character. The character of Socrates provides an illustration of a historical conundrum. If Socrates ever wrote a single word, it has not survived. As such, the entirety of modern knowledge concerning Socra ...

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Socrates - The Socratic Dialogues

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Socrates - Philosophical beliefs: Encyclopedia II - Socrates - Prose sources Plato, Xenophon, and Aristotle are the main sources for the historical Socrates; however, Xenophon and Plato, were direct disciples of Socrates, and presumably, they idealize him; however, they wrote the only continuous descriptions of Socrates that have come down to us. Aristotle refers frequently, but in passing, to Socrates in his writings. Socrates - The Socratic Dialogues. The Socratic dialogues are a series of dialogues written by Plato and Xenophon in the form of discussions between Socrates ...

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Soul - Religious views

Soul - Science and the soul

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Socrates - Philosophical beliefs: Encyclopedia - Creation book

Creation is an epic historical fiction novel by Gore Vidal which was published in 1981. The plot follows the adventures of a Persian diplomat in the 5th century BCE, who travels the known world comparing the political and religious beliefs of various nation states of the time, and meeting influential philosophical figures such as Zoroaster, Socrates, the Buddha, Mahavira, Laozi and Confucius. Vidal evokes a theme which Robert Graves had previously explored, a skepticism of the reported facts and interpretations of our un ...

Socrates - Philosophical beliefs: Encyclopedia - Democritus

Democritus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher (born at Abdera in Thrace around 460 BC; died in 370 BC). Democritus was a student of Leucippus, and co-originator of the belief that all matter is made up of various imperishable indivisible elements which he called "atomos", from which we get the English word atom. It is virtually impossible to tell which of these ideas were unique to Democritus, and which are attributable to Leucippus. Much of his work in mathematics was in the area of geometry. He was among the first to observe that a prism or pyramid has one third the volume of a c ...

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Democritus - Democritus' philosophy

Socrates - Philosophical beliefs: Encyclopedia - Apology Plato

(The) Apology (of Socrates) is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he defends himself against the charges of being a man "who corrupted the young, did not believe in the gods, and created new deities". "Apology" here has its earlier meaning (now usually expressed by the word "apologia") of a formal defence of a cause or of one's beliefs or actions (from the Latin apologia, from the Greek "apo" and "logos"). Apology Plato - Introduction. Socrates begins by saying he does not know ...

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Apology Plato - The verdict

Socrates - Philosophical beliefs: Encyclopedia - Anamnesis

Anamnesis (Greek:αναμνησις; “recollection”, “reminiscence”) is a term used in philosophy and religion. Anamnesis - Philosophy. Plato uses "anamnesis" in the epistemological theory that he develops in his dialogues Meno and Phaedo. In Meno, Plato's character (and old teacher) Socrates is challenged by Meno with what has become known as the sophistic paradox, or the paradox of knowledge: Meno: And how are you going to search for [the nature of virtue] when y ...

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Anamnesis - Philosophy

Anamnesis - Phaedo

Socrates - Philosophical beliefs: Encyclopedia - Heraclitus

Heraclitus of Ephesus (Greek Ήράκλειτος Herakleitos) (about 535 - 475 BC), known as 'The Obscure,' was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Ephesus in Asia Minor. As with other pre-Socratics, his writings only survive in fragments quoted by other authors. He disagreed with Thales, Anaximander, and Pythagoras about the nature of the ultimate substance and claimed instead that everything is derived from the Greek classical element fire, rather than from air, wate ...

Socrates - Philosophical beliefs: Encyclopedia - Inference

Inference is the act or process of drawing a conclusion based solely on what one already knows. Suppose you see rain on your window - you can infer from that, quite trivially, that the sky is grey. Looking out the window would have yielded the same fact, but through a process of perception, not inference (note however that perception itself can be viewed as an inferential process). Inference is studied within several different fields. Human inference (i.e. how humans draw conclusions) is traditionally studied within the field o ...

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Inference - An example: the classic syllogism

Inference - Automatic logical inference

Inference - An example: inference using Prolog

Inference - Inference and uncertainty

Socrates - Philosophical beliefs: Encyclopedia - Conversations with God

Conversations with God is a three-part dialogue written by Neale Donald Walsch that he claims to have channelled during the 1990s. (It has since been expanded by the author, though the original trilogy remains central.) The books outline the principles of God, ethics, metaphysics and the nature of reality in the format of a continuing dialogue between God and the author. In the dialogue many philosophical ideas are presented that had already been advanced earlier by major western thinkers ...

Socrates - Philosophical beliefs: Encyclopedia - Parmenides

Parmenides of Elea (5th century BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher born in Elea, a Greek city on the southern coast of Italy. He is reported to have been a student of Xenophanes, and the founder of the Eleatic school, which also included Zeno of Elea and Melissus of Samos. He is one of the most significant of the pre-Socratic philosophers. His only known work, conventionally titled 'On Nature' is an apocalyptic poem, which has only survived in fragmentary form. Approximately 150 lines of the poem remain today. It is known, ho ...

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Socrates - Philosophical beliefs: Encyclopedia - Aristotelian ethics

Aristotle believed that ethical knowledge is not certain knowledge (like metaphysics and epistemology) but is general knowledge. Also, as it is not a theoretical discipline, he thought a person had to study in order to become "good." Thus, if a person was to become virtuous, they could not simply study what virtue is, they had to actually do virtuous activity. We are not studying in order to know what virtue is, but to become good, for otherwise there would be no profit in it. (NE 2.2) Including:

Aristotelian ethics - Three Ethical Treatises

Aristotelian ethics - Nicomachean ethics

Socrates - Philosophical beliefs: Encyclopedia - Thales

Thales (in Greek: Θαλής) of Miletus (ca. 635 BC-543 BC), also known as Thales the Milesian, was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and one of the Seven Sages of Greece. Many regard him as the first philosopher in the Greek tradition as well as the father of science. Thales - Life. Thales lived in the city of Miletus, in Ionia, now western Turkey. According to Herodotus, he was of Phoenician descent. It was said that Thales had no children but adopted his nephew as his son. The well-t ...

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Socrates - Philosophical beliefs: Encyclopedia - Philosophy

The word Philosophy has a variety of meanings. Its etymology is from the ancient Greek word "Φιλοσοφία" (philo-sophia), which means "love of wisdom." Philosophy - Branches of philosophy. Philosophers analyse and investigate such concepts as existence or being, morality or goodness, knowledge, truth, and beauty. Philosophers may ask critical questions about the nature of these concepts — questions typically outside the scope of other disciplines, such as science. Several major works of post ...

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Philosophy - Branches of philosophy

Philosophy - History of Philosophy

Philosophy - Bibliography

Socrates - Philosophical beliefs: Encyclopedia - Western philosophy

Western philosophy is a line of related philosophical thinking, beginning in Ancient Greece, and including the predominant philosophical thinking of Europe and its former colonies, and continues to this day. The concept of philosophy itself originated in the West, derived from the ancient Greek word philosophia (φιλοσοφια); literally, "the love of wisdom" (philein = "to love" + sophia = wisdom, in the sense of theoretical or cosmic insight). However, many non-Western religions have adopted the term philosophy in reference to cosmic intellectual discourse ...

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Socrates - Philosophical beliefs: Encyclopedia - Proposition

Proposition is a term used in logic to describe the content of assertions. An assertion is content which may be taken as being true or false. Assertions are non-linguistic abstractions from the linguistic sentences that constitute an assertion. The nature of propositions is highly controversial amongst philosophers, many of whom are skeptical about the existence of propositions. Many logicians prefer to avoid use of the ter ...

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Socrates - Philosophical beliefs: Encyclopedia - Epistemology

Epistemology, from the Greek words episteme (knowledge) and logos (word/speech) is the branch of philosophy that deals with the nature, origin and scope of knowledge. Historically, it has been one of the most investigated and most debated of all philosophical subjects. Much of this debate has focused on analysing the nature and variety of knowledge and how it relates to similar notions such as truth and belief. Much of this discuss ...

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Epistemology - Definition of knowledge

Epistemology - Justification

Epistemology - Epistemological theories

Epistemology - Contemporary approaches

Epistemology - Gettier

Socrates - Philosophical beliefs: Encyclopedia - Mother Nature

Mother Nature is a mythical personification of nature. Images of women representing "mother" earth, and mother nature, are timeless. Long before history was recorded, goddesses were worshipped for their association with fertility, fecundity, and agricultural bounty. Priestesses held dominion over Incan, Assyrian, Babylonian, Slavonic, Roman, Greek, Indo-European, and Iroquoian fertility cults in the millenn ...

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Mother Nature - Western tradition

Socrates - Philosophical beliefs: Encyclopedia - African philosophy

African philosophy is a disputed term, used in different ways by different philosophers. Although African philosophers spend their time doing work in many different areas, such as metaphysics, epistemology, moral philosophy, and political philosophy, a great deal of the literature is taken up with a debate concerning the nature of African philosophy itself. Though this is often criticised (with some reason) as being sterile and self-absorbed, it can nevertheless provide useful insights into the nature of philosophy in general. Including: