Tag: APOLOGY and THE PHAEDO
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What would you say are the intellectual and character traits of the ideal philosopher? Are there specific passages in the Apology or Phaedo where Socrates exemplifies these traits? Is there a person in your life that you would say has these traits as well?
Platos Apology Description Some commentators have noted that Plato’s Apology is an important work not on the merits of the philosophical arguments that it contains, but on the image it presents of the philosophical life. In many ways, they argue, the Apology gives us a model of the kind of person a philosopher ought to…