What Does Socrates Mean To Be Wicked

10. Explain Socrates’ view that ‘to be wicked (or: unethical or immoral in some way) is to hurt yourself more than you hurt anyone else’. 4 points

Socrates’s view that one’s wicked actions cause more self-harm than the harm caused to others, stemmed from the fact that Socrates placed more value on soul than on the physical body. By being wicked, or making unethical or immoral decisions, one not only harms others immediately but one will harm their soul by turning oneself towards wickedness and making it harder to seek out virtue. He believed that since being wicked is the worst thing that may happen to a person and that each person choose on their own accord to be wicked or virtuous.

11. Why does Socrates think it is important to continue

Socrates also considered true wisdom to be the knowledge and acceptance of the fact that one ultimately knows very little, and he found many he came across to be very unwise. By continuing to question people on philosophical issues, I believe Socrates not only sought to gain clarity certain philosophically problematic issues, but to spread what he believed to be true wisdom by revealing to the people of Athens the boundaries of their

René Descartes, as a Rationalist, believed that the only indubitable knowledge that can be acquired, is the knowledge acquired through pure reasoning and with no physical experience necessary, while John Locke, as an Empiricist believed knowledge could only be gained by experience via the senses and then contemplation on such experiences. The philosophers’ hit another discord regarding their stances on innate principals. The Rationalist, Descartes, argued that there must be priori truths (those which are not learned through experience or observation, but are principals we are born with), while the Empiricist rejects this possibility emphatically. Locke believed instead that we are born with no innate knowledge, as a “tabular rasa” or a ‘blank slate,’ upon which impressions are made by the experiences we encounter.

13. Write a paragraph explaining Descartes’ ‘Method of Doubt’. 4 points

In order to determine which principals are definitive, René Descartes set about his attempts to determine which of his beliefs, if any, were true. He did so by using his Method of Doubt, wherein he subjected his beliefs to the basis that, if they could be disproved, then the belief was flawed and subject to doubt. He concluded that the basis for most of his beliefs were doubtable, including his sensory experiences - based on his Dreaming Argument and