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“Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.” ~ Socrates. “When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.” ~ Socrates. “To fear death, my friends is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know.
Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell. Plato. Freedom, Democracy, Glory. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967).
1 kwi 2003 · Second, Socrates criticizes the Athenian democracy, as Adeimantus remarks (563d). Many readers think that Socrates goes over the top in his description, but the central message is not so easy to dismiss.
30 sty 2024 · Socrates believed one should be skeptical of everything, and he practiced what he preached regarding democracy. Socrates was an outspoken critic of the Athenian government. Two of his biggest criticisms of democracy concerned the majority rule’s lack of knowledge and the potential for a demagogue.
22 wrz 2024 · Socrates's friendship with the opponents of the democracy, both in the recent past and earlier in the case of Alcibiades, had alienated his fellow citizens. They did not mean him to die. At his trial, he was offered the chance to stop teaching, but would not take it.
15 lut 2018 · Socrates Quotes on Democracy. Democracy - government by the people for the people. But why do we need an elected body to work for our wellbeing, why can't we do things for our own. Following the same, with several Ancient Greece’s great achievements, democracy was highly suspicious to Socrates.
