Socrates concludes that if Euthyphro's definition of piety is acceptable, then there must exist at least one thing that is both pious and impious ( as it is both loved and hated by the gods )— which Euthyphro admits is absurd.

Socrates concludes the dialogue by announcing that all the two have produced is mere " wind-eggs " and that he must be getting on now to the courthouse to face his trial being brought against him by Meletus.

Socrates, he concludes, is unique in his ideas and accomplishments, unrivaled by any man from the past or present ( 221c ); but be warned: Socrates may present himself as your lover, but before you know it you will have fallen in love with him.

Socrates concludes this part of the Apology by reminding the judges that he will not resort to the usual emotive tricks and arguments.

Socrates concludes his Apology with the claim that he bears no grudge against those who accused and condemned him, and asks them to look after his three sons as they grow up, ensuring that they put goodness before selfish interests.

A lover's friendship is divine, Socrates concludes, while that of a non-lover offers only cheap, human dividends, and tosses the soul about on earth for 9, 000 years.

Socrates concludes that the soul of the virtuous man is immortal, and the course of its passing into the underworld is determined by the way he lived his life.

Socrates thus concludes, " Then, Cebes, beyond question, the soul is immortal and imperishable, and our souls will truly exist in another world.

Noting the absence of any mention of Mavia in Zosimus ' work who was familiar with the writings of Sozomen and Socrates, Shahid concludes this omission is deliberate since it did not accord with the Zosimus ' thesis regarding the destructive effects of the Christianization and barbarization he associated with Constantine I's reforms.

However, regarding those who were not virtuous during life, and so favored the body and pleasures pertaining exclusively to it, Socrates also speaks.

Socrates happened to be the citizen presiding over the assembly that day and refused to cooperate ( though to little effect ) and stood against the idea that it was outrageous for the people to be unable to do whatever they wanted.

Socrates uses the parable of the ship to illustrate this point: the unjust city is like a ship in open ocean, crewed by a powerful but drunken captain ( the common people ), a group of untrustworthy advisors who try to manipulate the captain into giving them power over the ship's course ( the politicians ), and a navigator ( the philosopher ) who is the only one who knows how to get the ship to port.

Socrates admits that it is unfortunate that Protagoras is dead and cannot defend his idea against people such as himself.

Socrates explains that philosophers are open to mockery because they are not concerned about what interests most people: they could not care less about the scandals in their neighbor's house, the tracing of one's ancestry to Heracles, and so on.

Socrates adds a big bifurcation to this speech, saying that there are only two kinds of lives to be lived: a divinely happy one, lived by righteous philosophers or a godless, miserable one, such as most people live ( 176-177 ).

Socrates responds by telling of a dream, in which he overheard people talking of primary elements ( 201e ).

Plato lets Socrates describe a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall.

In Plato's fictional dialogue, Socrates begins by describing a scenario in which what people take to be real would in fact be an illusion.

Thus Socrates has proposed a counterexample to Callicles ' claim, by looking in an area that Callicles perhaps did not expect — groups of people rather than individual persons.

According to Socrates, public argument through ‘ dialectic ’ was imperative to ensure ‘ civility ’ in the polis and ‘ good life ’ of the people.

He then compares Socrates to the satyr Marsyas ; Socrates, however, needs no flute to " cast his spells " upon people as Marsyas did -- he needs only his words ( 215b-d ).

Most people, he continues, don't know what Socrates is like on the inside:

Monopod ( creature ) | The Shadow Foots ( Skiapodes ): a mythical people, they are mentioned in The Birds only as the neighbours of a spooky Socrates ( line 1553 )

Socrates says this can't be right because Homer ( whose authority they both accept on this point ) says that modesty is not good for all people, but it is agreed that sophrosyne is ( 160e ).

In his dialogue Meno, Plato has the character Meno accuse Socrates of " stunning " people with his puzzling questions, in a manner similar to the way the torpedo fish stuns with electricity.

Socrates praises the Spartans as the best people in the world not only because of their fierceness in battle but because of their wisdom and philosophical skills.

Meno proposes to Socrates that the " capacity to govern men " may be a virtue common to all people.

Socrates points out that this raises a second problem — many people do not recognize evil.

At this stage Archelaus introduces in a discourse to the people his history of " this Manes ," very much to the effect of the recapitulation in Socrates.

Crito tells Socrates that if he follows through with the execution, people will assume that Crito and friends were too cheap to finance an escape.

Socrates tells Crito that he is one of those people who must be guided by reason, while Crito has insisted that he be obeyed in this matter regardless of whether he has convinced Socrates.

The question is whether it would be unjust for Socrates to escape, not what people would think about him.

While Western philosophy traces dialectics to ancient Greek thought of Socrates and Plato, the idea of tension between two opposing forces leading to synthesis is much older and present in Hindu Philosophy.

In his youth he fought at Tanagra ( 426 BCE ), and was a disciple first of Gorgias, and then of Socrates, at whose death he was present.

Phoinix told it to another, unnamed person ; meanwhile Apollodorus checked it with Socrates, who was present.

He came over to Greece to be present at the Olympic games, where he fell in with Ischomachus the agriculturist, and by his description was filled with so ardent a desire to see Socrates, that he went to Athens for the purpose, and remained with him almost up to the time of his execution, 399 BCE.

Of particular importance is the speech of Socrates, relating the ideas attributed to the prophetess Diotima, which present love as a means of ascent to contemplation of the divine.

For passive verbs, the main verb is in the past participle form, giving " I have been taught by Socrates " in the passive present perfect simple form but two forms of " to be " are used for the continuous: " has been being taught ", " The student has been being taught Latin ", rendering the perfect continuous or progressive in the passive voice largely meaningless in English.

During the course of the speech, Socrates twice mentions Plato as being present ( at 34a and 38b ).

Socrates suggests that the Form might be like a day, and thus present in many things at one.

He was a pupil of Socrates in the late 5th century BCE, and was present at his death.

He was present at Socrates ' death ( 399 BCE ), after which Euclid returned to Megara, where he offered refuge to Plato and other frightened pupils of Socrates.

Having been present at Socrates ' death bed, Phaedo relates the dialogue from that day to Echecrates, a Pythagorean philosopher.

Simmias confesses that he does not wish to disturb Socrates during his final hours by unsettling his belief in the immortality of the soul, and those present are reluctant to voice their skepticism.

[...] Socrates, sitting up on the couch, bent and rubbed his leg, saying, as he was rubbing: " How singular is the thing called pleasure, and how curiously related to pain, which might be thought to be the opposite of it ; [...] Why, because each pleasure and pain is a sort of nail which nails and rivets the soul to the body [...] I am not very likely to persuade other men that I do not regard my present situation as a misfortune, if I cannot even persuade you that I am no worse off now than at any other time in my life.

It is probable that Hermogenes had indeed witnessed the trial: although Plato's Apology does not mention his presence, his Phaedo lists Hermogenes among those who were present at Socrates ' death.

Thrasymachus believes that Socrates has done the men present an injustice by saying this and attacks his character and reputation in front of the group, partly because he suspects that Socrates himself does not even believe harming enemies is unjust.

The lengthiest and most famous of Xenophon's Socratic writings, the Memorabilia is essentially an apologia ( defense ) of Socrates, differing from both Xenophon's Apology of Socrates to the Jury and Plato's Apology mainly in that the Apologies present Socrates as defending himself before the jury, whereas the former presents Xenophon's own defense of Socrates, offering edifying examples of Socrates ' conversations and activities along with occasional commentary from Xenophon.