PL-201
week one assignment
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Short Paper on Socrates
Socrates compared Athenians to a dazed, sluggish horse that
could possibly be awakened by the persistent biting of an (annoying!) fly. This
idea of Socrates as a transformative "philosophical gadfly" inspired
many who have read about Socrates's life and death.
Your formal writing assignment this week is to write a 600-900
word essay that answers each of the following questions: 1.Did Socrates's
philosophical lifestyle have the potential to "wake up" Athenians in
a way that could have been useful to that society? 2.Does the importance of
being awoken in that way justify the extreme manner that Socrates chose to live
and die? 3.Do you agree that (to use a famous phrase from the eighteenth
century Prussian philosopher Immanuel Kant), awakening an individual--or an
entire society--from "dogmatic slumbers" is a constructive and useful
role of raising probing philosophical questions? Is there a significant
opportunity for philosophers or others to play this kind of constructive role
in our own society?
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