The Clouds by Aristophane

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The Understandings of Socrates emerge from Aristophanes and Plato

In Apology , at passage 19 b and c , Socrates briefly explain the reasons of accusations against him . Those are , inquiring the things below the earth and in the sky , making the weaker argument defeat the stronger and teaching others to follow his examples which corrupts the young , and he mention s Aristophanes play as a kind of root for these accusations . At 19 c , he says , he does not

try to educate people and charge a fee Unlike , in Aristophanes ' Clouds , Socrates charges Strepsiades to educate his son . In Plato 's Socrates , Socrates claims , he does not teach and charge a fee whereas in Aristophanes ' Socrates , in Clouds , he teaches by charging a fee . In addition , In Apology , at passage 20 c Socrates emphasize on being master in the subject you teach to charge your students for a fee and he claims , he can not teach since he did not master in any subject . He sees himself as who is in interaction with the people and youth of Athens in informal discussions , not lectures or lessons

Socrates inquires possessing wisdom and he concludes that he does not have such a wisdom and the God Delphi is the one who posses that wisdom However , he claims he is the wisest man since he knows that he know nothing . So , when , you compare human wisdom with divine wisdom , human wisdom is nothing . He uses this methodology to lead the people to examine their life and know their self-knowledge and potential . He admits education as passing a scholar or an educational discipline to a person with its whole structure . That 's why he does not see himself as a teacher even though he admits teaching something to people . Here Socrates inquires the specialty of a person in his subject area . He also does not mean no one can reach the most favored level of specialty

Aristophanes ' Clouds emphasize on Socrates ' methodology from different perspective . In the play , he mentions "thinking house " wherein scholars philosophers , natural and rhetorical wisdom reside and these philosophers study two stereotypical arguments "right and wrong . The "wrong argument is morally inferior but rhetorically superior and convincing . In clouds , Socrates teaches how to conquer the right argument by defending cleverly "wrong " argument . Strepsiades wants to go this school in to get rid of his depts . and creditors by defending himself with that way . However , he cannot adaptive himself to Socrates teaching and Socrates does not want to teach him no more . So Strepsiades decides to send his son to this school . But , his son is against this offer since he has adherence to his God "Zeus " traditional education system under which boys are obedient , respectful and strong At first , Strepsiades ' son does not want to get such an education since this education introduces new philosophy and divinity . So , The chorus of clouds calls "right " and "wrong to a...