Tag: Socrates dialogue

Second Alcibiades! (Synopsis – highlights & unredacted quotes lifted from the Socratic dialogue by Plato, Benjamin Jowett translation)

THEMES: On the danger/risk/difficulty of offering prayers while devoid of the knowledge of the best, On the difference between a clever artist and a wise man, SOCRATES: ... you seem to be troubled and to cast your eyes on the ground, as though you were thinking about something.  ALCIBIADES: Of what do you suppose that I am … Continue reading Second Alcibiades! (Synopsis – highlights & unredacted quotes lifted from the Socratic dialogue by Plato, Benjamin Jowett translation) →

Cratylus! (Synopsis – highlights & unredacted quotes lifted from the Socratic dialogue by Plato, Benjamin Jowett translation)

THEMES: Origin and etymology of Greek Language, Whether names are natural or conventional, the truth/correctness of names or the natural fitness of names, an examination on whether falsehood is impossible,... HERMOGENES: I should explain to you, Socrates, that our friend Cratylus has been arguing about names; he says that they are natural and not conventional; not a portion of … Continue reading Cratylus! (Synopsis – highlights & unredacted quotes lifted from the Socratic dialogue by Plato, Benjamin Jowett translation) →

Minos! (Synopsis – highlights & unredacted quotes lifted from the Socratic dialogue by Plato, Translated by W.R.M. Lamb, Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated) (Delphi Ancient Classics Book 5)

THEME: A search for the definition of law,  Socrates: Tell me, what is law? Companion: To what kind of law does your question refer?  Socrates: What! Is there any difference between law and law, in this particular point of being law? For just consider what is the actual question I am putting to you. It is as though … Continue reading Minos! (Synopsis – highlights & unredacted quotes lifted from the Socratic dialogue by Plato, Translated by W.R.M. Lamb, Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated) (Delphi Ancient Classics Book 5) →

Charmides! (Synopsis – highlights & unredacted quotes lifted from the Socratic dialogue by Plato, Benjamin Jowett translation)

THEME: An inquiry into the meaning of Temperance,  Now you know, my friend, that I (Socrates) cannot measure anything, and of the beautiful, I am simply such a measure as a white line is of chalk; for almost all young persons appear to be beautiful in my eyes. But at that moment, when I saw him (Charmides) coming … Continue reading Charmides! (Synopsis – highlights & unredacted quotes lifted from the Socratic dialogue by Plato, Benjamin Jowett translation) →

Laws! (Synopsis – highlights & unredacted quotes lifted from the Socratic dialogue by Plato, Benjamin Jowett translation)

Themes: An account of government and laws, the natural principles of right and wrong in laws, model of the whole virtue, the nature and power of right education, on the subject of music and convivial entertainment, On the correct principles of Music, On training of human natures, On the purpose of wine, On Free Will, On the problem of Evil, On Nature as the Mind, On … Continue reading Laws! (Synopsis – highlights & unredacted quotes lifted from the Socratic dialogue by Plato, Benjamin Jowett translation) →

Statesman! (Synopsis – highlights & unredacted quotes lifted from the Socratic dialogue by Plato, Benjamin Jowett translation)

Themes: On what is an ideal State, delineation of a Statesman, the nature of the second-best State, on the notion of good governance without laws/law isn't the perfection of right, the nature of excess and defect, the nature of the righteous judge, the nature of the Royal Web. Where shall we discover the path of … Continue reading Statesman! (Synopsis – highlights & unredacted quotes lifted from the Socratic dialogue by Plato, Benjamin Jowett translation) →

Theaetetus! (Synopsis – highlights & unredacted quotes lifted from the Socratic dialogue by Plato, Benjamin Jowett translation)

Themes: On what knowledge is or rather is not, On the difference between a philosopher and a lawyer, On theories of mind, On the doctrine of perpetual flux, On the existence/non-existence of false opinion. 'Is not learning growing wiser about that which you learn?' …  And by wisdom the wise are wise? …  And is that different in any way from knowledge?  … Continue reading Theaetetus! (Synopsis – highlights & unredacted quotes lifted from the Socratic dialogue by Plato, Benjamin Jowett translation) →

Gorgias (Synopsis – highlights & unredacted quotes lifted from the Socratic dialogue by Plato, Benjamin Jowett translation)

Theme: On the definition/ nature of Rhetoric ...Nobody asked what was the quality, but what was the nature, of the art, and by what name we were to describe Gorgias. Very good then; as you profess to be a rhetorician, and a maker of rhetoricians, let me ask you, with what is rhetoric concerned: I might … Continue reading Gorgias (Synopsis – highlights & unredacted quotes lifted from the Socratic dialogue by Plato, Benjamin Jowett translation) →

Hippias Major (Synopsis – highlights & unredacted quotes lifted from the Socratic dialogue by Plato, Benjamin Jowett translation)

Theme: What is Beauty? On the definition of Beauty- An endeavor to find the definition of beauty, the fine, the fine, or/and the beautiful…  Why did the ancient wisemen refrain from the affairs of state, and none of those ancients ever thought fit to exact the money as payment (ironically unconscious of the fact that money is … Continue reading Hippias Major (Synopsis – highlights & unredacted quotes lifted from the Socratic dialogue by Plato, Benjamin Jowett translation) →

Apology dialogue (Synopsis – highlights & unredacted quotes lifted from the Socratic dialogue by Plato, Benjamin Jowett translation)

Let the judge decide justly and the speaker speak truly… Charges levied on Socrates, through the mouthpieces of Meletus (represents poets), Anytus (represents craftsmen) and Lycon (represents rhetoricians) …): (Ancient slanderers) tell of one Socrates, a wise man, who speculated about the heaven above, and searched into the earth beneath, and made the worse appear … Continue reading Apology dialogue (Synopsis – highlights & unredacted quotes lifted from the Socratic dialogue by Plato, Benjamin Jowett translation) →