41. Theaetetus By Plato Read classic literature including theaetetus by Plato at 4literature.net. I met theaetetushe was being carried up to athens from the army at Corinth. http://www.4literature.net/Plato/Theaetetus/

Books [ Titles Authors Articles Front Page ... FAQ Theaetetus by Plato Buy more than 2,000 books on a single CD-ROM for only $19.99. That's less then a penny per book! Click here for more information. Read, write, or comment on essays about Theaetetus Search for books Search essays 360 BC THEAETETUS by Plato translated by Benjamin Jowett THEAETETUS - PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: SOCRATES; THEODORUS; THEAETETUS Euclid and Terpsion meet in front of Euclid's house in Megara; they enter the house, and the dialogue is read to them by a servant. - Euclid. Have you only just arrived from the country, Terpsion? Terpsion. No, I came some time ago: and I have been in the Agora looking for you, and wondering that I could not find you. Euc. But I was not in the city. Terp. Where then? Euc. As I was going down to the harbour, I met Theaetetus-he was being carried up to Athens from the army at Corinth. Terp. Was he alive or dead? Euc. He was scarcely alive, for he has been badly wounded; but he was suffering even more from the sickness which has broken out in the army. Terp. The dysentery, you mean?

42. 390s BC: Information From Answers.com Platonist theaetetus b. athens, Greece, c. 415 bce, d. athens, 369 bce extendsthe Pythagoreans work on incommensurables what modern mathematicians http://www.answers.com/topic/390s-bc

showHide_TellMeAbout2('false'); Business Entertainment Games Health ... More... On this page: Wikipedia Mentioned In Or search: - The Web - Images - News - Blogs - Shopping 390s BC In the year bce Mathematics Platonist Theaetetus [b. Athens, Greece, c. 415 bce , d. Athens, 369 bce ] extends the Pythagoreans' work on incommensurables what modern mathematicians recognize as irrational numbers. He treats not only square roots but also other types of geometric incommensurables and classifies them. His work (and that of Eudoxus) is thought to be the basis of Book X of Euclid's Elements. See also bce Mathematics bce Mathematics Tools Greek mathematician Archytas [b. Tarentum (Italy), c. 420 bce , d. c. 350 bce ] builds a series of toys, among them a mechanical pigeon propelled by a steam jet. He is also credited by some with the invention of the pulley. See also bce Tools Wikipedia 390s BC Centuries 5th century BC 4th century BC 3rd century BC ... 400s BC 390s BC 380s BC 370s BC 360s BC 350s BC ... 340s BC Years: 399 BC 398 BC 397 BC 396 BC ... 390 BC Events and trends This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see

43. Archons Of Athens: Information From Answers.com Archons of athens This is a list of the eponymous archons of athens . Background Thearchon was the 143 BC142 BC, theaetetus. 142 BC-141 BC, Aristophon http://www.answers.com/topic/archons-of-athens

showHide_TellMeAbout2('false'); Business Entertainment Games Health ... More... On this page: Wikipedia Mentioned In Or search: - The Web - Images - News - Blogs - Shopping Archons of Athens Wikipedia Archons of Athens This is a list of the eponymous archons of Athens Background The archon was the chief magistrate in many Greek cities, but in Athens there were three archons, the archon eponymous , the polemarch (replaced in 501 BC by ten strategoi ), and the basileus (the ceremonial remnant of the Athenian monarchy After 683 BC the offices were held for only a single year, and the year was named after the archon eponymous. The archon eponymous was the chief archon, and presided over meetings of the Boule and Ekklesia , the ancient Athenian assemblies. The archon eponymous remained the titular head of state even under the democracy , though with much reduced political importance. After 457 BC ex-archons were automatically enrolled as life members of the Areopagus , though that assembly was no longer extremely important politically at that time. Years where the name of the archon is unknown are identified as such. Years listed as "

44. Theaetetus, By Plato (theaetetus) EUCLID As I was going down to the harbour, I met theaetetus—he was being carriedup to athens from the army at Corinth. TERPSION Was he alive or dead? http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/p/p71th/theaetetus.html

Plato Theaetetus THEAETETUS PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, Theodorus, Theaetetus. EUCLID: Have you only just arrived from the country, Terpsion? TERPSION: No, I came some time ago: and I have been in the Agora looking for you, and wondering that I could not find you. EUCLID: But I was not in the city. TERPSION: Where then? TERPSION: Was he alive or dead? EUCLID: He was scarcely alive, for he has been badly wounded; but he was suffering even more from the sickness which has broken out in the army. TERPSION: The dysentery, you mean? EUCLID: Yes. TERPSION: Alas! what a loss he will be! EUCLID: Yes, Terpsion, he is a noble fellow; only to-day I heard some people highly praising his behaviour in this very battle. TERPSION: No wonder; I should rather be surprised at hearing anything else of him. But why did he go on, instead of stopping at Megara? EUCLID: He wanted to get home: although I entreated and advised him to remain, he would not listen to me; so I set him on his way, and turned back, and then I remembered what Socrates had said of him, and thought how remarkably this, like all his predictions, had been fulfilled. I believe that he had seen him a little before his own death, when Theaetetus was a youth, and he had a memorable conversation with him, which he repeated to me when I came to Athens; he was full of admiration of his genius, and said that he would most certainly be a great man, if he lived. TERPSION: The prophecy has certainly been fulfilled; but what was the conversation? can you tell me?

45. Theaetetus, By Plato (introduction) thither had met theaetetus, who was being carried up from the army to athens . Socrates begins by asking Theodorus whether, in his visit to athens, http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/p/p71th/introduction.html

Plato Theaetetus INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS. Some dialogues of Plato are of so various a character that their relation to the other dialogues cannot be determined with any degree of certainty. The Theaetetus, like the Parmenides, has points of similarity both with his earlier and his later writings. The perfection of style, the humour, the dramatic interest, the complexity of structure, the fertility of illustration, the shifting of the points of view, are characteristic of his best period of authorship. The vain search, the negative conclusion, the figure of the midwives, the constant profession of ignorance on the part of Socrates, also bear the stamp of the early dialogues, in which the original Socrates is not yet Platonized. Had we no other indications, we should be disposed to range the Theaetetus with the Apology and the Phaedrus, and perhaps even with the Protagoras and the Laches. There is no reason to doubt that Theaetetus was a real person, whose name survived in the next generation. But neither can any importance be attached to the notices of him in Suidas and Proclus, which are probably based on the mention of him in Plato. According to a confused statement in Suidas, who mentions him twice over, first, as a pupil of Socrates, and then of Plato, he is said to have written the first work on the Five Solids. But no early authority cites the work, the invention of which may have been easily suggested by the division of roots, which Plato attributes to him, and the allusion to the backward state of solid geometry in the Republic. At any rate, there is no occasion to recall him to life again after the battle of Corinth, in order that we may allow time for the completion of such a work (Muller). We may also remark that such a supposition entirely destroys the pathetic interest of the introduction.

46. Archons Of Athens - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This is a list of the eponymous archonsof athens. 143 BC142 BC, theaetetus. 142 BC-141 BC, Aristophon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archons_of_Athens

Wikimedia needs your help in the final days of its fund drive. See our fundraising page The Red Cross and other charities also need your help. Archons of Athens From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This is a list of the eponymous archons of Athens Contents Background Decennial archons Annual archons Sources ... edit Background The archon was the chief magistrate in many Greek cities, but in Athens there were three archons, the archon eponymous , the polemarch (replaced in 501 BC by ten strategoi ), and the basileus (the ceremonial remnant of the Athenian monarchy After 683 BC the offices were held for only a single year, and the year was named after the archon eponymous. The archon eponymous was the chief archon, and presided over meetings of the Boule and Ecclesia , the ancient Athenian assemblies. The archon eponymous remained the titular head of state even under the democracy , though with much reduced political importance. After 457 BC ex-archons were automatically enrolled as life members of the Areopagus , though that assembly was no longer extremely important politically at that time. Years where the name of the archon is unknown are identified as such. Years listed as "

47. Plato's Apology In Plato s theaetetus Socrates uses this metaphor to explain how, According toSocrates, what is so unusual about his devotion to athens highest http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/classics/dunkle/studyguide/apology.htm

The Classical Origins of Western Culture The Core Studies 1 Study Guide by Roger Dunkle Brooklyn College Core Curriculum Series APOLOGY Genre - Oratory Plato's Apology is in the widest sense an example of forensic oratory, in which Socrates defends himself in court against his accusers. The Apology is also an important example of a fairly extensive literature designed to defend Socrates against his detractors and to present what his defenders believed to be the real Socrates. Finally, it should be noted that the Apology is a set of speeches recreated by a second party after the fact (like the speeches in Thucydides), and therefore should not be considered a word-for-word reproduction of what Socrates said on that occasion. Historical Background After the defeat of Athens by Sparta in the Peloponnesian War, the democracy, which had so vigorously prosecuted the war, could not survive. The Assembly, cowed by the presence of the Spartan fleet, voted to choose thirty men to form a temporary government while they codified "the ancestral laws" as a basis for a new constitution. The phrase "ancestral laws" was a well-known slogan of the oligarchs at Athens. The first step taken by the Thirty , with the tacit approval of the Athenian people, was to rid Athens of those politicians whose bad advice had contributed to Athens' downfall. But the ultimate aim of the Thirty was to eliminate their political opposition. Ignoring their assigned task of codification, they proceeded to use their autocratic power, with the support of the newly arrived Spartan garrison stationed on the Acropolis, against prominent democrats. Political ideology, however, was not the only motive behind the reign of terror established by these oligarchs who became commonly known as the "Thirty Tyrants". Greed encouraged them to prey upon well-to-do Athenians by passing a law that they could put to death and confiscate the property of anyone not included on their list of three thousand citizens.

48. NBI: Raphael, School Of Athens, Plato RAFFAELLO SANZIO, The School of athens (detail) Plato (likeness of Leonardo daVinci). PLATO theaetetus (html, in English, at PERSEUS) http://www.newbanner.com/AboutPic/athena/raphael/nbi_plat.html

Plato (427 - 347 BCE.) RAFFAELLO SANZIO, The School of Athens (detail): Plato (likeness of Leonardo da Vinci). Documents PLATO: Alcibiades 1 (html, in English, at PERSEUS) PLATO: Alcibiades 2 (html, in English, at PERSEUS) PLATO: Apologia di Socrate (testo, zip, in italiano, trad. Stazzone, a UNIMI/MANUZIO) PLATO: Apology (html, in English, at MIT) PLATO: Apology (html, in English, at PERSEUS) PLATO: Charmides, or Temperance (html, in English, at MIT) PLATO: Charmides (text, in English, at VT.EDU) PLATO: Charmides (html, in English, at PERSEUS) PLATO: Cleitophon (html, in English, at PERSEUS) PLATO: Cratylus (html, in English, at MIT) PLATO: Cratylus (html, in English, at PERSEUS) PLATO: Critias (text, in English, at VT.EDU) PLATO: Critias (html, in English, at MIT) PLATO: Critias (html, in English, at PERSEUS) PLATO: Crito (html, in English, with commentary, at UOREGON) PLATO: Crito (html, in English, at MIT) PLATO: Crito (text, in English, at WIRETAP) PLATO: Crito (html, in English, at PERSEUS) PLATO: Critone (testo, zip, in italiano, trad. Sassi. a UNIMI/MANUZIO) PLATO: Epinomis (html, in English, at PERSEUS)

49. GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography Of Plato In 387, at the age of forty, Plato returned to athens and founded the Academy The works produced in these years theaetetus, Parmenides, Philebus, Laws, http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Authors/about_plato.html

Study Guides, Literature Summaries, Novel Analysis, Editing Services and Successful College Application Essays My Account Home Getting you the grade since 1999. Search: Study Guides Editing Services ... Help Biography of Plato Plato Plato's biography is mainly drawn from the work of other ancient writers and a few of Plato's own letters. He was born in Athens around 428 BC to an aristocratic family with a long and esteemed history of political leadership in the state. According to an anecdote of dubious veracity, Plato was originally named Aristocles, but was quickly dubbed, "Platon," meaning "broad," by schoolmates impressed with his broad shouldersshoulders that would one day burden themselves with the foundational weight of Western thought. Plato's father, Ariston, descended from the early kings of Athens, and his mother, Perictone, from a distinguished line that included 6th Century BC legislator Solon. Plato's father died when Plato was a young child; his mother, unable to support Plato, his two older brothers Adeimantus and Glaucon, and his young sister Potone on her own, remarried to Pyrilampes, an associate of the statesman Pericles. Socrates has been credited with teaching Plato basic philosophy along with his dialectic style of debate, in which the truth is elucidated through a series of questions and answers. It is also thought that Socrates directed his disciple's inquiries toward the question of virtue and how it manifested itself into the nobility of human character. If there is a broader context under which Plato's philosophy developed, eventually unifying to some extent metaphysics, epistemology, aesthetics, politics, and ethics, it is the pursuit of virtue.

50. THEAETETUS Through the eyes of Eucleides, we see a sick and mortally, wounded Theaetetusbeing carried back to athens from the battlefields near Corinth. http://caae.phil.cmu.edu/Cavalier/80250/Plato/Theatetus/Theat.html

THE PATH OF KNOWLEDGE: THE THEAETETUS The Theaetetus can be considered a Socratic dialogue, since in it we do not arrive at any definitive answers to the questions which are posed. Its central concern is the problem of knowledge, yet its main conclusions all serve to show us what knowledge is not. Be this as it may, the Theaeteus rightfully belongs to the later set of dialogues since it prepares the way for the truly Platonic analyses of knowledge which are found in the Sophist. The Theaeteus, by clearing away many false opinions, allows Plato to introduce his own full-blown theory, a theory which connects the problem of knowledge with the realm of the Forms. Because of this interconnection between the two dialogues, and because the analyses of the Sophist presuppose the negative critiques of the Theaeteus, we shall begin our path of knowledge with the Socratic problem. The dialogue opens with a brief prologue which serves to date the time of the supposed conversation. An introduction then guides the reader into the setting for the discussions which were to have taken place between an aging Socrates and a youthful Theaetetus. It ishere that the dialogue is given its direction through the posing of its central question: "What is the nature of knowledge?" Theaetetus makes three general attempts to answer this question, and his responses form the major divisions of the work. The first attempt tries to equate knowledge with sense perception; the second speaks of knowledge as true judgement (but how do we know that a judgement is true?); the third response augments the second by saying that knowledge is true Judgement accompanied by an explanation. Yet Socrates is able to show Theaetetus that each attempt to arrive at an absolute answer to the problem of knowledge is fatally flawed. In the end, we are left with an awareness of our ignorance concerning the nature of knowledge (and the way is prepared for the more thoroughgolng analyses of the Sophist).

51. Online Guide To Ethics And Moral Philosophy theaetetus mounts a powerful attack on Protagoras relativist theory of truth, On returning from Sicily to athens he began teaching in a gymnasium http://caae.phil.cmu.edu/Cavalier/80130/part1/sect1/texts/R_Plato.html

Robert Cavalier Philosophy Department Carnegie Mellon Part I History of Ethics Preface: The Life of Socrates Section 1: Greek Moral Philosophy Section 2: Hellenistic and Roman Ethics Section 3: Early Christian Ethics Section 4: Modern Moral Philosophy Section 5: 20th Century Analytic Moral Philosophy Part II Concepts and Problems Preface: Meta-ethics, Normative Ethics and Applied Ethics Section 1: Ethical Relativism Section 2: Ethical Egoism Section 3: Utilitarian Theories Section 4: Deontological Theories Section 5: Virtue Ethics Section 6: Liberal Rights and Communitarian Theories Section 7: Ethics of Care Section 8: Case-based Moral Reasoning Section 9: Moral Pluralism Part III Applied Ethics Preface: The Field of Applied Ethics Section 1: The Topic of Euthanasia Multimedia Module: A Right to Die? The Dax Cowart Case Section 2: The Topic of Abortion Multimedia Module: The Issue of Abortion in America Postscript: Conflict Resolution Search this site: Excerpts from Malcolm Schofield's entry on Plato in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (General Ed. Edward Craig)

52. Archons Of Athens The archon was the chief magistrate in many Greek cities, but in athens there were theaetetus. 142 BC141 BC. Aristophon. 141 BC-140 BC. Pleistaenus (?) http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/History/ArchonsOfAthens.html

Archons of Athens The archon was the chief magistrate in many Greek cities, but in Athens there were three archons, the archon eponymous, the polemarch (replaced in 501 BC by ten strategoi), and the basileus (the ceremonial remnant of the Athenian monarchy). After 683 BC the offices were held for only a single year, and the year was named after the archon eponymous. The archon eponymous was the chief archon, and presided over meetings of the Boule and Ekklesia , the ancient Athenian assemblies. The archon eponymous remained the titular head of state even under the democracy, though with much reduced political importance. After 457 BC ex-archons were automatically enrolled as life members of the Areopagus, though that assembly was no longer extremely important politically at that time. Years where the name of the archon is unknown are identified as such. Years listed as "anarchy" mean that there was literally "no archon". There are various conflicting reconstructions of lists; sources for this list are given at the end. Note that the term of an archon covered two of our years, beginning in the spring or summer and continuing into the next spring or summer. The polemarch or strategoi, basileus, and thesmothetai (the six assistants to the archons) are also listed, where known. This is a list of the eponymous archons of Athens.

53. Plato's Model Of The Universe And The Dodecahedron theaetetus died on his return to athens after he was wounded at the Battle ofCorinth. His friend Plato dedicated one of his dialogues to him. http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/PlatoSolid.htm

Michael Lahanas My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing. Werner Heisenberg According to a recent theory the Universe could be a dodecahedron. It is surprising that Plato The Creation of the Universe, the Big Bang , with Plato's Polyhedra as elementary building blocks, especially important the dodecahedron. Stamp 2004 Polyhedra are solid figures bounded by plane polygons. A polyhedron bounded by a number of congruent polygonal faces, so that the same number of faces meet at each vertex, and in each face all the sides and angles are equal (i.e. faces are regular polygons) is called a regular polyhedron One morning the young Werner Heisenberg discovered reading Plato's Timaeus a description of the world with regular polyhedra. Heisenberg could not understand why Plato being so rational started to use speculative ideas. But finally he was fascinated by the idea that it could be possible to describe the Universe mathematically. He could not understand why Plato used the Polyhedra as the basic units in his model, but Heisenberg considered that in order to understand the world it is necessary to understand the Physics of the atoms. Niels ... the five so-called Platonic figures which, however, do not belong to Plato, three of the five being due to the Pythagoreans, namely the cube, the pyramid, and the

54. Plato, Theaetetus As I was going down to the harbor, I met theaetetus he was being carried upto athens from the army at Corinth. Terpsion. Was he alive or dead? Euclid. http://thriceholy.net/Texts/Theaetetus.html

THEAETETUS Plato PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: SOCRATES; THEODORUS; THEAETETUS Euclid and Terpsion meet in front of Euclid's house in Megara; they enter the house, and the dialogue is read to them by a servant. Euclid . Have you only just arrived from the country, Terpsion? Terpsion . No, I came some time ago: and I have been in the Agora looking for you, and wondering that I could not find you. Euclid . But I was not in the city. Terpsion . Where then? Euclid . As I was going down to the harbor, I met Theaetetus he was being carried up to Athens from the army at Corinth. Terpsion . Was he alive or dead? Euclid . He was scarcely alive, for he has been badly wounded; but he was suffering even more from the sickness which has broken out in the army. Terpsion . The dysentery, you mean? Euclid . Yes. Terpsion . Alas! what a loss he will be! Euclid . Yes, Terpsion, he is a noble fellow; only to-day I heard some people highly praising his behavior in this very battle. Terpsion . No wonder; I should rather be surprised at hearing anything else of him. But why did he go on, instead of stopping at Megara? Euclid . He wanted to get home: although I entreated and advised him to remain, he would not listen to me; so I set him on his way, and turned back, and then I remembered what Socrates had said of him, and thought how remarkably this, like all his predictions, had been fulfilled. I believe that he had seen him a little before his own death, when Theaetetus was a youth, and he had a memorable conversation with him, which he repeated to me when I came to Athens; he was full of admiration of his genius, and said that he would most certainly be a great man, if he lived.

55. Unsaved:///newpage2.htm Socrates was born in athens as a son of Sophronicus who was supposed to be a while his mother Phénarété was a midwife according to Plato s theaetetus. http://www.csudh.edu/phenom_studies/greekphil/greekphil_lect7.htm

Socrates (469/68 - 400/399 B.C.) Life and Personality Socrates was born in Athens as a son of Sophronicus who was supposed to be a stone mason, while his mother Phénarété was a midwife according to Plato's Theaetetus . In stead of succeeding his father's trade, Socrates became a philosopher. Socrates, being extremely philosophically inclined, i.e., he was deeply in search of wisdom (love of wisdom = philo-sophia ) throughout his entire life. According to Plato, Socrates thought that he inherited his mother's profession of midwifery and he thought that the philosopher could be only a midwife for wisdom. For, as according to Socrates, philosophy, Love of Wisdom, cannot equip the philosopher with knowledge or wisdom, nor the philosopher can teach his students by providing them with wisdom and knowledge, as philosophy is the pursuit of knowledge which is only possible by being aware of one's lack of knowledge and wisdom. Thus, Socrates characterized the role of a philosopher as the midwife of wisdom and knowledge, namely the philosopher can only help the youth and others assisting them to have their own philosophy born and develop, and not impart any knowledge or skills to others like in the other scientific disciplines or arts. Socrates must have come from a rather well-to-do family because he served as a fully armed hoplite, and he must have been left sufficient inheritance to enable him to serve in the military. Socrates indulged himself in philosophical inquiry.

56. Protagoras Of Abdera, Gorgias Of Leontini (437 BC), Hippias And Socrates (= Plato) in theaetetus told that he sent to Prodicus a man who had notbeen In 427 BCGorgias, therefore, came to athens as a diplomat with the http://www.csudh.edu/phenom_studies/greekphil/greek10.htm

Protagoras of Abdera, Gorgias of Leontini (437 b.C.), Hippias and Prodicus While Protagoras was older, these three were active, when Socrates drank the hemlock in 339 B.C. Protagoras of Abdera (500 - 435 B.C.) Protagoras was supposed to be born around 481 B.C. in Abdera in Thracia (where possibly Leucippus and Democritus were also a native), while Taylor and Burnett considered his birth in 500 B.C. Protagoras seemed to come to Athens around 450 B.C. Pericles enjoyed his talent and association. Indeed Protagoras was the greatest sophist of all. By Pericles' request, Protagoras was supposed to draft the constitution of Thurioi, the new colony founded around 444 B.C. As one of the important guests, Protagoras was in Athens at the outbreak of the Peloponessian War in 431 B.C. and during the famous plague of 430 B.C. Protagoras , in which Protagoras was portrayed as an elderly human-being, at least 65 years of age around 435 B.C. Since Plato mentioned that Protagoras died at the height of his activities ( ), we tentatively set the date of Protagoras 500435 B.C.

57. ... A Footnote To Plato: An Introduction To Plato's Theaetetus- Paul Rezendes- T In a rich dramatic setting typical of the early dialogues, we learn of the returnto athens of the deathly ill theaetetus, whom our narrator Euclid http://examinedlifejournal.com/articles/template.php?shorttitle=theatetus&author

58. Life Of Socrates By Sanderson Beck Ten years after the death of Confucius, Socrates was born in athens in the His mother was Phaenarete, and in Plato s theaetetus Socrates says she was a http://www.san.beck.org/SOCRATES1-Life.html

Confucius and Socrates Contents BECK index SOCRATES Life and Deeds Ten years after the death of Confucius, Socrates was born in Athens in the fourth year of the 77th Olympiad on the sixth day of the month of Thargelion, when the city is purified, according to Diogenes Laertius' citation of Apollodorus' Chronology.1 In Plato's account of Socrates' speech in his trial of 399 BC, Socrates said he was seventy years old.2 Therefore he lived (469-399) during the century which has been called the golden age of Athens. The Greeks had stopped the Persians at Marathon in 490 and turned them away for good in 480 at Salamis and in 479 at Plataea. With security from foreign encroachment, the way was prepared for Aeschylus Sophocles Euripides Aristophanes , Pericles, the sophists, and Socrates. Socrates was the son of Sophroniscus, a sculptor, and he referred to Daedalus, the traditional founder of sculpting and stone-masonry, as his ancestor.3 Some sources say that Socrates was employed on the stone-work of the draped figures of the Graces on the Acropolis.4 This is not unlikely since this work was commissioned by Pericles as a public works project when Socrates was a young man. His mother was Phaenarete, and in Plato's Theaetetus Socrates says she was a midwife.5

59. Ethics Of Socrates, Xenophon, And Plato By Sanderson Beck Both Xenophon and Plato were born in athens about 428 BC and thus had the opportunity In Plato s theaetetus Socrates, acting as an intellectual midwife, http://www.san.beck.org/EC21-Socrates.html

BECK index Socrates, Xenophon, and Plato Empedocles Socrates Xenophon's Socrates Defense of Socrates ... Laws This chapter has been published in the book For information on ordering click here. In the fifth century BC the Pythagorean Empedocles of Acragas wrote two poems, On Nature and Purifications , about the middle of the fifth century BC. He saw the universe as shifting between Love and Strife and composed of the elements of fire, air, water, and earth. With Love comes concord and joy; Aristotle interpreted Love as the cause of good and Strife as the cause of bad. Aristotle also said that he had been a champion of freedom and was averse to all rules. Others said that Empedocles declined the kingship offered to him, because he preferred to live frugally. When a tyrant insisted that all the guests drink wine or have it poured over their heads, Empedocles the next day accused the host and master of revels; this led to their condemnation and execution. Thus began his political career; it was argued that he must have been both wealthy and democratic, because he broke up the assembly of a thousand three years after it was set up. Late in his life the descendants of his enemies opposed his return to Agrigentum; so he went to the Peloponnesus, where he died. Leucippus founded the atom theory of natural philosophy refined by Democritus, who also taught that the cheerful person eager for justice and right actions is strong and free of care, while those who do not care about justice and right find everything joyless and in memory are afraid and reproach themselves. Happiness, said Democritus, is not found in gold or cattle but in the soul. For Democritus the goal of action is tranquillity, which is not the same as pleasure but a state of well-being in which the soul is calm, strong and undisturbed by fear, superstition, and other feelings.

60. Socrates -- Facts, Info, And Encyclopedia Article In the (Click link for more info and facts about theaetetus) theaetetus and During the later stages of Socrates life, athens was in continual flux due http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/s/so/socrates.htm

Socrates [Categories: Ancient Athenians, Ancient Greek philosophers, 399 BC deaths, 470 BC births] This article is about the ancient Greek philosopher, for all other uses see: (Click link for more info and facts about Socrates (disambiguation)) Socrates (disambiguation) Socrates (June 4, (Click link for more info and facts about 470) (A native or inhabitant of Greece) Greek (A resident of Athens) Athenian (A specialist in philosophy) philosopher and one of the most important icons of the (Click link for more info and facts about Western philosophical tradition) Western philosophical tradition His life According to accounts from antiquity, Socrates' father was Sophroniscus, a sculptor, and his mother Phaenarete, a midwife. He was married to (Click link for more info and facts about Xanthippe) Xanthippe , who bore him three sons. By the cultural standards of the time (and perhaps all time), she was considered a shrew. Socrates himself attested that he, having learned to live with Xanthippe, would be able to cope with any other human being, just as a horse trainer accustomed to wilder horses might be more competent than one not. Socrates enjoyed going to (Click link for more info and facts about symposia) symposia , drink-talking sessions. He was a legendary drinker, remaining sober even after everyone else in the party had become senselessly drunk; this helped him obtain his reputation as a formidable conversationalist. He also saw military action, fighting at the

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