Rise and Shine

The Trial of Socrates

SOCRATES : THE HARBINGER OF TRUTH

Awakenings and Realizations

It is when things are losing grip of what must be ' that brings about an awakening and a realization to change . This process dissects what is on hand and in practice and proceed to resolve and improve and grow

The backdrop of the Sophists strong presence in the psyche and life of the 5th century Greeks hold their allegiance to the laws handed down by the gods and the heavens . Thus , attaining good and happiness through the divine

laws confirms all : some kind of end justifies the means The extreme rationalizations of life in Athens simply justify that the instinct and passion of man as the true course . A man that is strong lords over the weak and theirs is the only parameter of righteousness It was a time that was all about power , wealth , violence , passion

Here we are at the same extremism that is indicative of the whole doctrine of the Sophists . Such extremism must have been pleasing to the youth of Athens in the time of Pericles . All young men were anxious to obtain offices which would assure them wealth and pleasure . Sophistic teaching , by battering all the s of ethics and justice , opened up to men a way that made possible and justified the use of all deception and the most violent passions (The Philosophy of Socrates , 1999

And Socrates saw the pitiful state of losing the true value of an Athenian life . He deems that especially the youth must be awakened to realize that moral values are sacred and pursuit of the same must be based on reason and continued learning and search for truth

The Fundamentals of Socrates

He never wrote anything to stand as testimony of the yearnings he felt for the youth of Athens in that era of decadence . Through other thinkers like Plato were the fundaments of Socrates 's philosophical concepts reached time and civilizations and learning thereafter

It is pursuit of morality and truth that he was imparting to Athens and its young . The people then were cuddled within the charm of the oratory of the Sophists . Yet , the substance of how life should be perceived is swayed aside . Socrates imparted that all men must dissect every part of him to come up with knowledge , learning , wisdom , truth and values . Thus he said : an unexamined life is not worth living

And since the Athenians are not into the methods of questioning and wondering and even doubting and takes everything the Sophists are telling them - hook , line and sinker , so to speak - the Athenians are either asleep ' from the true value of living

Socrates thus admonished the ability to question , to ask what , why , how and where and when . Then answers arrived should be treated with doubt cynicism , irony so that prejudices and false notions will be weeded out And eventually when all elements become coherent , then truth can be embraced

In spite of proffering methods of thinking and...