Euclides is prompted to share his book when Terpsion wonders where he'd been: Euclides, who apparently can usually be found in the marketplace of Megara, was walking outside of the city and had happened upon Theaetetus being carried from Corinth to Athens with a case of dysentery and a minor war wound ; Euclides remarks that Socrates had made some uncanny predictions about Theaetetus needing to rise to fame.

Socrates remarks that Meno makes many out of one, like somebody who breaks a plate.

In most modern readings these closing remarks are " evidently ironic ", but Socrates ' invocation of the gods may be sincere, albeit " highly tentative ".

One contemporary criticism of Plato's Apology is perhaps implied by the opening paragraphs of Xenophon's Apology, assuming that the former antedated the latter ; Xenophon remarks that previous writers had failed to make clear the reason for Socrates ' boastful talk ( megalēgoria ) in the face of the death penalty.

After originally remarking that " landscapes and trees have nothing to teach me, only people do ", Socrates goes on to make constant remarks concerning the presence and action of the gods in general, nature gods such as Pan and the nymphs, and the Muses, in addition to the unusually explicit characterization of his own daemon.

Gorgias remarks that no one has asked him a new question in a long time, and when Socrates asks, assures him that he is just as capable of brevity as of long-windedness ( 449c ).

Socrates remarks that some people are benefited by the pain and agony of their own punishments ( 525b ) and by watching others suffer excruciating torture ; but others have misdeeds that cannot be cured.

His work On Philosophical Schools appears to have been rich in facts and critical remarks, and the notices which we have about Socrates, and on the books of Plato and others of the Socratic school, given on the authority of Panaetius, were probably taken from that work.

Socrates tells a tale which is the " allegory of the good government ".

" Socrates also used his ugliness as a philosophical touch point, concluding that philosophy can save us from our outward ugliness.

Eudaemonists generally reply that the universe is moral and that, in Socrates ' words, “ No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death ,” or, in Jesus ' words, “ But he who endures to the end will be saved .”

The wife of Socrates can be seen grieving alone outside the chamber, dismissed for her weakness.

Thus Ockham argued that " Socrates has wisdom ", which apparently asserts the existence of a reference for " wisdom ", can be rewritten as " Socrates is wise ", which contains only the referring phrase " Socrates ".

However, this argument may be inverted by realists in arguing that since the sentence " Socrates is wise " can be rewritten as " Socrates has wisdom ", this proves the existence of a hidden referent for " wise ".

According to Russell Socrates can be analysed into the form ' The Philosopher of Greece.

Historically, religious skepticism can be traced back to Socrates, who doubted many religious claims of the time.

Socrates replies that even if no one can see one's physical appearance, the soul is disfigured by the evils one commits.

::" Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals, for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures ; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs … A being of higher faculties requires more to make him happy, is capable probably of more acute suffering, and is certainly accessible to it at more points, than one of an inferior type ; but in spite of these liabilities, he can never really wish to sink into what he feels to be a lower grade of existence … It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied ; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.

* Philosopher John Searle suggests that the Western canon can be roughly defined as " a certain Western intellectual tradition that goes from, say, Socrates to Wittgenstein in philosophy, and from Homer to James Joyce in literature ..."

When he gets close to us, we can confirm ( verify ) that he is Socrates and not Theaetetus through the proof of our eyesight.

She delivered babies and for his part, Socrates can tell when a young man is in the throes of trying to give birth to a thought.

Socrates draws the distinction between having and possessing ; the former typically implies the latter, thought on the other hand, one can possess something, such as a bird, without actually having it ( with them at any moment )( 199a ).

Socrates proposes that the syllable can be a ' single form ' produced from the letters.

Socrates examines it further by suggesting that a man who can vocalize his judgement must be able to make reference to the primary elements of the subject ( 207a ).

" Socrates responds " But how can I refute you, if, as you say, to tell a falsehood is impossible?

For example ( given in Phaedo 98 ), if Socrates is sitting in an Athenian prison, the elasticity of his tendons is what allows him to be sitting, and so a physical description of his tendons can be listed as necessary conditions or auxiliary causes of his act of sitting ( Phaedo 99b ; Timaeus 46c9-d4, 69e6 ).

" Suppose further ," Socrates says, " that the man was compelled to look at the fire: wouldn't he be struck blind and try to turn his gaze back toward the shadows, as toward what he can see clearly and hold to be real?

The origin for this quote can be dated back to over 2, 000 years ago from the quote from Socrates, " Rule worthy of might.

Someone can believe Socrates ' philosophical claims about justice without also believing Socrates ' theological speculations about the Greek gods, or accept Aristotle's views on poetry without also accepting his claim that heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones.

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.

In the Gorgias written years later Plato has Socrates contemplating the possibility of himself on trial before the Athenians: he says he would be like a doctor prosecuted by a pastry chef before a jury of children.

The Christian historian Socrates Scholasticus was of the opinion that Julian believed himself to be Alexander the Great " in another body " via transmigration of souls, " in accordance with the teachings of Pythagoras and Plato ".

That is, the " middle " position, that Socrates is neither mortal nor not-mortal, is excluded by logic, and therefore either the first possibility ( Socrates is mortal ) or its negation ( it is not the case that Socrates is mortal ) must be true.

Larissa was indeed the birthplace of Meno, who thus became, along with Xenophon and a few others, one of the generals leading several thousands Greeks from various places, in the ill-fated expedition of 401 ( retold in Xenophon's Anabasis ) meant to help Cyrus the Younger, son of Darius II, king of Persia, overthrow his elder brother Artaxerxes II and take over the throne of Persia ( Meno is featured in Plato's dialogue bearing his name, in which Socrates uses the example of " the way to Larissa " to help explain Meno the difference between true opinion and science ( Meno, 97a – c ) ; this " way to Larissa " might well be on the part of Socrates an attempt to call to Meno's mind a " way home ", understood as the way toward one's true and " eternal " home reached only at death, that each man is supposed to seek in his life ).

She allegedly also proclaimed Socrates to be the wisest man in Greece, to which Socrates said that, if so, this was because he alone was aware of his own ignorance.

One will sometimes find the claim that Socrates described himself as the " gadfly " of Athens which, like a sluggish horse, needed to be aroused by his " stinging ".

It should be pointed out, however, that in the Greek text of his defense given by Plato, Socrates never actually uses that term ( viz., " gadfly " oistros

He held up to scorn their inconsistency when he referred to the fact that Socrates in dying ordered a cock to be sacrificed to Aesculapius ( De anima, i ).

However, there may have been contributory causes, such as his support for Socrates, as well as the fact that he had taken service with the Persians.

Parmenides was taken seriously by other philosophers, influencing, for instance, Socrates and Plato.

While the Socrates presented in the dialogues is often taken to be Plato's mouthpiece, Socrates ' reputation for irony, his caginess regarding his own opinions in the dialogues, and his occasional absence from or minor role in the conversation serve to conceal Plato's doctrines.

Having taken the position that virtue cannot be taught, Socrates adduces as evidence for this that many prominent Athenians have produced sons inferior to themselves.

Yet it is unlikely that Aristophanes would have intended these charges to be taken seriously, since Plato depicts Aristophanes and Socrates as being on very good terms with each other in the Symposium.

The remainder of the dialogue is taken up with an actual performance of such an exercise, where a young Aristoteles ( later a member of the Thirty Tyrants, not to be confused with Plato's eventual student Aristotle ) takes the place of Socrates as Parmenides ' interlocutor.

Once the meaningful lexical items are taken away —" Socrates " and " man "— what is left is the pseudo-sentence, " S was a M ".

Socrates ' wife Xanthippe was there, but was very distressed and Socrates asked that she be taken away.

# Portrait de Socrate (" Portrait of Socrates "), text taken from Plato's Symposium

# Mort de Socrate (" Death of Socrates "), text taken from Plato's Phaedo

However, most later scholars have taken one particular argument, the argument against an army of lovers in Socrates ' final speech, as proof that Xenophon had based his work on Plato's, since this concept is mentioned in Plato's work.

When Tissaphernes arrested and executed Clearchus, Proxenus, Menon, Agias ( possibly the same person as Sophaenetus ), and Socrates, their places were taken by Xenophon, Timasion, Xanthicles, Cleanor, and Philesius, with the Spartan Chirisophus as the general commander.

This is sometimes taken as evidence that Chaerephon, unlike Socrates, was an active supporter of the Athenian Democracy and was persecuted on this account when the democracy was temporarily deposed after the defeat of Athens by Sparta.