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Running head: SOCRATIC INTELLECTUALISM 1

SOCRATIC INTELLECTUALISM 4

Socratic Intellectualism

Sejla Husic

DEP2004 Human Growth and Development

FSCJ South Campus

November.1st,2016

Socratic Intellectualism

The Socratic intellectualism lies in the power and authority of his rational arguments. His stand in arguments as brought out in the apology; the conversation of his and his admirable friend Crito seems to bear a lot of ideas of his understanding and beliefs. This is a positioning in which one holds his beliefs and facts in his arguments, presents them logically to persuade people others believe in them. This is brought out maturely and helps where Socrates persuades Crito to abandon his idea of escaping him from Athens. Socrates claims that people’s opinions should not count so much than those of one person who believes that his are just and right. He brings out his ideas in a rational manner and bases his arguments on what he believes is the right course of action. Crito finds himself marrying those ideas since they were too enticing and irresistible. Finally, Crito is left resistless and had to agree all that came from the Wiseman-Socrates (Cohen & marc, 1997).

The Socratic intellectualism entails a lot to do with his beliefs and knowledge of the issues that came his way and his positioning in viewing and handling them. He based his arguments on strong, well informed, and factual reasoning hard to be resisted. His intellectualism won him a great prize in the handling of difficult situations. He took his time to read the minds of his countrymen and finally had something to learn, he made discoveries based on this research that those who had the highest reputation of knowledge were less knowledgeable as compared to those who held less reputation. His beliefs were inspiring and that all motivation in regard to reason originates from belief. They were also held that there are no beliefs that are appealing and that all inspiration comes from (Cohen & marc, 1997).

Socrates intellectualism inspired him to go to those who had the reputation of possessing the knowledge and examining its meaning. In his investigations, he discovered that those who held the highest reputation were almost lacking such knowledge, and those thought to have less intellectual were found to be more knowledgeable. His positioning in raising his arguments in his defense in the court portrays his intellectual sense. He explores all possible courses to outweigh his accusers by logically bringing out his argument to convince the “gentlemen of Athens.” He goes from the ‘present’ to the previous accusations leveling them in high respect to his beliefs and knowledge (Broadie & Sarah, 2007).

Aristotle argument suggests that the virtue of an intellect is to provide a guideline and which can help to make key and quantitative decisions. Aristotle’s thesis (that no rules are available which prevents purposeful and ethical virtue), harmonizes the policy of the mean. It should be noted that Aristotle's position on the possibility of akratic is heavily inspired by the multilateral classification of the soul by Plato in the Republic. Plato maintains that the spirited part of the soul (that accommodates anger and other emotions), and the appetitive part of the soul (that where the desire for physical pleasure is housed) can interrupt the commands of reason thus resulting in acts that contradict reasoning (Broadie & Sarah, 2007).

Remarkably, Aristotle’s discussion of akrasia protects a position similar to that of Socrates. When initially introducing the topic of akrasia, and examining several of the Problems entailed in recognizing this phenomenon, Aristotle declares that Socrates seems to the term akrasia in his dictionary of thought, and he labels this as a thesis that obviously disagrees with the appearances. Because he maintains that his aim is to preserve as many of the appearances as possible, it may be surprising at the end as his analysis of conflicts amid reason and feel leads to a conclusion that Socrates in one way or another was right. Aristotle states that anyone acting against reason lack what is assumed to be incompetent knowledge; in one way he has knowledge but in another way he lacks knowledge (penner et al., 2011).

References

Leigh T. Denault “ Philosophy: The Athenian Philosophers: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.” 27 March. 2003. 01 Nov. 2016.

Blackson, T. A. (2015). Two interpretations of socratic intellectualism. Ancient Philosophy, 35(1), 23-39.