There is a wide exchange of students and teaching staff within the framework of the Socrates / Erasmus programme of the European Union, especially with France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Spain, Netherlands and England.

These agreements involve staff and student mobility, both within EU Programmes like the Socrates programme and agreements exclusively concerned with research activities.

* Erasmus programme, the higher education part of the European Union's Socrates programme for student exchange

The European Union's Socrates programme has funded the development of blended learning courses in nine less widely spoken European languages.

The initial Socrates programme ran from 1994 until 31 December 1999 when it was replaced by the Socrates II programme on 24 January 2000, which ran until 2006.

The programme is named after the Greek philosopher Socrates.

Within the Socrates programme, funded by the European Union Directorates-General: Education and Culture ( DG EAC ), Information Society and Media ( DG INFSO ) and the EuropeAid Cooperation Office ( DG AIDCO ), the promotion and learning of languages is a high priority.

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The Erasmus Programme, together with a number of other independent Programmes, was incorporated into the Socrates programme established by the European Commission in 1994.

The Lifelong Learning Programme 2007-2013 replaced the Socrates programme as the overall umbrella under which the Erasmus ( and other ) Programmes operate from 2007.

The Programme continues the main actions launched under previous action programmes ( in particular, it brings together the various actions financed under the Socrates programme and the Leonardo da Vinci programme ).

Foreign students can attend the HKU as a regular student, an exchange student in programmes such as Socrates / Erasmus, a bilateral exchange programme or as an MA, MPhil or PhD student.

* Socrates programme, a European education programme

Stadia takes part in various teacher and student exchange and student trainee programmes e. g. within the framework of Socrates programme / Erasmus programme, Leonardo da Vinci programme, and Nordplus programme.

Project Socrates ended in 1990 with Michael Sekora, the project's director, leaving in protest when the Bush Administration reduced funding.

* In 399 BC Socrates was put on trial and executed for ' corrupting the young and believing in strange gods '.

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.

In effect, the world of all things divides, on this view, into those ( like Socrates, the planet Venus, and New York City ) that have existence in the narrow sense, and those ( like Sherlock Holmes, the goddess Venus, and Minas Tirith ) that do not.

There are names which have no meaning, but have the role of designating an object: " Aristotle ", " Socrates ", and so on.

Whereas Socrates was eventually put on trial and executed as a corrupting influence, Euripides chose a voluntary exile in old age, dying in Macedonia.

As the historian Socrates Scholasticus said, at the opening of his history that was designed as a continuation of Eusebius, " Also in writing the life of Constantine, this same author has but slightly treated of matters regarding Arius, being more intent on the rhetorical finish of his composition and the praises of the emperor, than on an accurate statement of facts.

Then Socrates goes on to demonstrate the contrary of the commonly accepted part using the law of noncontradiction.

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 ).

* Socrates: Widely considered the founder of Western political philosophy, via his spoken influence on Athenian contemporaries ; since Socrates never wrote anything, much of what we know about him and his teachings comes through his most famous student, Plato.

Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates all developed theories of public speaking in opposition to the Sophists, and their ideas took on institutional form through the development of permanent schools where public speaking was taught.

Plato's animosity against rhetoric, and against the sophists, derives not only from their inflated claims to teach virtue and their reliance on appearances, but from the fact that his teacher, Socrates, was sentenced to death after sophists ' efforts.

In the Republic Plato makes Socrates tell how Er, the son of Armenius, miraculously returned to life on the twelfth day after death and recounted the secrets of the other world.

Debates concerning the nature, essence and the mode of existence of space date back to antiquity ; namely, to treatises like the Timaeus of Plato, or Socrates in his reflections on what the Greeks called khora ( i. e. " space "), or in the Physics of Aristotle ( Book IV, Delta ) in the definition of topos ( i. e. place ), or even in the later " geometrical conception of place " as " space qua extension " in the Discourse on Place ( Qawl fi al-Makan ) of the 11th century Arab polymath Alhazen.

In theoretical terms, the idea of " sovereignty ", historically, from Socrates to Thomas Hobbes, has always necessitated a moral imperative on the entity exercising it.

Socrates was tried on two charges: corrupting the youth and impiety ( in Greek, asebeia ).

* Socrates and Plato on the Divine ( orig.

He is known for his writings on the history of his own times, the 4th century BC, preserving the sayings of Socrates, and descriptions of life in ancient Greece and the Persian Empire.

Xenophon writes that he had asked the veteran Socrates for advice on whether to go with Cyrus, and that Socrates referred him to the divinely inspired Delphic oracle.

* 399 BC: Socrates is executed in Athens on charges of impiety and corrupting Athenian youth.

The author was hailed as the " German Plato ," or the " German Socrates "; royal and other aristocratic friends showered attentions on him, and it was said that " no stranger who came to Berlin failed to pay his personal respects to the German Socrates.

For this narrative, Socrates gives as his authority " The Disputation Manes of Archelaus bishop of Caschar ," a work either unknown to or disregarded by Eusebius, who in his History ( vii. 31 ) briefly vilifies Manes without giving any of the above details.

This campaign concluded in 430 BCE ( 3 years before Plato's birth and 31 years before Socrates ' death ), but Plato is probably accurate in depicting the association of Chaerephon and Socrates as already well established.

At the Socrates Sculpture Park's main entrance hangs a 10 x 28 ' billboard structure that has been an ongoing installation since 1999.

* Virtues of Authenticity: Essays on Plato and Socrates ( 1999 )

< http :// www. perseus. tufts. edu / hopper / text? doc = Plat .+ Prot .+ 343a & fromdoc = Perseus: text: 1999. 01. 0178 ></ ref > Socrates says examples of them are, " the far-famed inscriptions, which are in all men's mouths ,--' Know thyself ,' and ' Nothing too much.

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.

He was formerly identified with an Egyptian priest who, after the destruction of the pagan temple at Alexandria ( 389 ), fled to Constantinople, where he became the tutor of the ecclesiastical historian Socrates.

The beginning of his episcopacy was remarkable for a prodigy by which is related by Socrates, Philostorgius, the chronicle of Alexandria, & c. St. Cyril, an eye-witness wrote immediately to the emperor Constantius, an exact account of this miraculous phenomenon: and his letter is quoted as a voucher for it by Sozomen, Theophanes, Eutychius, John of Nice, Glycas, and others.

Socrates Scholasticus ( born c. 380 ), in his Ecclesiastical History, gives a full description of the discovery ( that was repeated later by Sozomen and by Theodoret ) which emphasizes the role played in the excavations and construction by Helena ; just as the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem ( also founded by Constantine and Helena ) commemorated the birth of Jesus, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre would commemorate his death and resurrection.

Socrates ( 469 BC – 399 BC ) was one of the first Greek philosophers to encourage both scholars and the common citizen to turn their attention from the outside world to the condition of humankind.

According to Aristophanes, the alleged co-author was a celebrated actor, Cephisophon, who also shared the tragedian's house and his wife, while Socrates taught an entire school of quibblers like Euripides:

* the poet's attempt to ward off the charge of impiety that was later to overtake his friend Socrates ;

As much as Epicurus or Socrates was content to possess is best, or-in the Roman manner-a fortune equal to the equestrian order.

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 ".

The Ancient Greek phronetic approach to philosophy was pioneered by such philosophers as Socrates and Epicurus.

Leo Strauss argued that the strong influence of Xenophon, a student of Socrates more known as an historian, rhetorician and soldier, was a major source of Socratic ideas for Machiavelli, sometimes not in line with Aristotle.

* Socrates was a wise man.

* Socrates was wise.

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.

After this confrontation, Socrates dedicated his life to a search for knowledge that was one of the founding events of western philosophy.