Socrates
In Our Time: Philosophy
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Socrates and Plato - The Influence of Plato
In the renaissance, from montaigne, the sceptical humanist, socrates was a hero. Montaine says that socrates has done humanity a great favour because he's shown how we can try to live the good life without relying on gods or religion and tradition. What nature and socrates share is turning philosophy into a personal life quest. For him, he sees socrates as making this huge turn, again, from cosmology and physics into ethics. And then, oh yesbut you've got hegel in the a in his history. His overt sayings are hugely hostile to socrates,. right from the very early birth of tragedy, which i think is is 18 72,
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