The Socratic Dialogues Quotes

“all started at the Temple of Apollo In Delphi. One of his friends approached the oracle with the question: “Is anyone wiser than Socrates?” the answer was “No.” Socrates was profoundly puzzled by this episode. He claimed to know”
― Plato, The Socratic Dialogues

“conversation. In Laches, he discusses the meaning of courage with a couple of retired generals seeking instruction for their kinsmen. In Lysis, Socrates joins a group of young friends in trying to define friendship. In Charmides, he engages another such group in examining the widely celebrated virtue of sophrosune, the “temperance” that combines self-control and self-knowledge. (Plato’s readers would know that the bright young man who gives his name to the latter dialogue would grow up to become one of the notorious Thirty Tyrants who briefly ruled Athens after its defeat by Sparta in the Peloponnesian War.) None of these dialogues reaches definite conclusions. They end in aporia, contradictions or other difficulties. The Socratic dialogues are aporetic: his interlocutors are left puzzled about what they thought they knew. Socrates’s cross-examination, or elenchus, exposes their ignorance, but he exhorts his fellows to”
― Plato, The Socratic Dialogues

“commitment”
― Plato, The Socratic Dialogues

“Euthyphro;”
― Plato, The Socratic Dialogues

“Socrates,”
― Plato, The Socratic Dialogues

“International”
― Plato, The Socratic Dialogues

“righteous”
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“whom”
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“suffering”
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“because”
― Plato, The Socratic Dialogues