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A History of Western Philosophy
- Yuujihas quoted3 years ago
But if this definition is appropriate, that is because of Plato's influence upon subsequent philosophers.Socrates was a man who defied society in a way that got him killed. For the dislike against him was strong because of how he had challenged them. He was reckless, but in persuing a higher sense of knowledge but baiting it out of others. He didn't mean much harm, but in his quest to attain knowledge, he knew very well how to draw it out of others.
- Yuujihas quoted3 years agoA stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand. I would rather be reported by my bitterest enemy among philosophers than by a friend innocent of philosophy.
- Yuujihas quoted3 years agoIt was in this atmosphere that the trial and death of Socrates took place ( 399 B.C.).,
It was about Protagoras and
- Yuujihas quoted3 years agoSocrates was not a writer, but a man who confined himself to oral discussion.
- Yuujihas quoted3 years agoThrasymachus, in the first book of the
Republic, argues that there is no justice except the interest of the stronger; that laws are made by governments for their own advantage; and that there is no impersonal standard to which to appeal in contests for power. - Yuujihas quoted3 years agoFor example, when a man has jaundice everything looks yellow. There is no sense in saying that things are really not yellow, but the colour they look to a man in health; we can say, however, that, since health is better than sickness, the opinion of the man in health is better than that of the man who has jaundice. This point of view, obviously, is akin to pragmatism.
- Yuujihas quoted3 years agoA Sophist was a man who made his living by teaching young men certain things that, it was thought, would be useful to them
- Yuujihas quoted3 years agoDemocritus worked out his theories in considerable detail, and some of the working out is interesting. Each atom, he said, was impenetrable and indivisible because it contained no void. When you use a knife to cut an apple, the knife has to find empty places where it can penetrate; if the apple contained no void, it would be infinitely hard and therefore physically indivisible.
- Yuujihas quoted3 years agoThe conception of purpose, therefore, is only applicable within reality, not to reality as a whole.
- Yuujihas quoted3 years agofounders of atomism were two, Leucippus and Democritus.
Founders of atomism
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