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[filed under theme 28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / c. God is the good
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Full Idea
Undeviating beneficent goodness guides Socrates' thought so deeply that he applies it even to the deity; he projects a new concept of god as a being that can cause only good, never evil.
Gist of Idea
A new concept of God as unswerving goodness emerges from Socrates' commitment to virtue
Source
comment on Socrates (reports of career [c.420 BCE]) by Gregory Vlastos - Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher p.197
Book Ref
Vlastos,Gregory: 'Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher' [CUP 1992], p.197
The
53 ideas
from Socrates
13773
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For the truth you need Prodicus's fifty-drachma course, not his one-drachma course
[Socrates]
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343
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The unexamined life is not worth living for men
[Socrates]
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7421
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A philosopher is one who cares about what other people care about
[Socrates, by Foucault]
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1649
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Socrates opened philosophy to all, but Plato confined moral enquiry to a tiny elite
[Vlastos on Socrates]
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164
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It is legitimate to play the devil's advocate
[Socrates]
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5842
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Philosophical discussion involves dividing subject-matter into categories
[Socrates, by Xenophon]
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1647
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In Socratic dialogue you must say what you believe, so unasserted premises are not debated
[Vlastos on Socrates]
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648
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Socrates began the quest for something universal with his definitions, but he didn't make them separate
[Socrates, by Aristotle]
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115
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Socrates was pleased if his mistakes were proved wrong
[Socrates]
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22099
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The method of Socrates shows the student is discovering the truth within himself
[Socrates, by Carlisle]
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5844
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Socrates always proceeded in argument by general agreement at each stage
[Socrates, by Xenophon]
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11389
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Socrates sought essences, which are the basis of formal logic
[Socrates, by Aristotle]
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639
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Socrates developed definitions as the basis of syllogisms, and also inductive arguments
[Socrates, by Aristotle]
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199
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The common belief is that people can know the best without acting on it
[Socrates]
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1652
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Socrates did not consider universals or definitions as having separate existence, but Plato made Forms of them
[Socrates, by Aristotle]
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1653
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Socrates did not accept the tripartite soul (which permits akrasia)
[Vlastos on Socrates]
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344
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If death is like a night of dreamless sleep, such nights are very pleasant
[Socrates]
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1663
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By 'areté' Socrates means just what we mean by moral virtue
[Vlastos on Socrates]
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1657
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Socrates holds that right reason entails virtue, and this must also apply to the gods
[Vlastos on Socrates]
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1662
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A new concept of God as unswerving goodness emerges from Socrates' commitment to virtue
[Vlastos on Socrates]
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1650
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For Socrates our soul, though hard to define, is our self
[Vlastos on Socrates]
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23252
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Socrates first proposed that we are run by mind or reason
[Socrates, by Frede,M]
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195
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No one willingly commits an evil or base act
[Socrates]
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5843
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People do what they think they should do, and only ever do what they think they should do
[Socrates, by Xenophon]
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5253
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Socrates was shocked by the idea of akrasia, but observation shows that it happens
[Aristotle on Socrates]
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5839
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For Socrates, wisdom and prudence were the same thing
[Socrates, by Xenophon]
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5867
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For Socrates, virtues are forms of knowledge, so knowing justice produces justice
[Socrates, by Aristotle]
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5069
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Socrates was the first to base ethics upon reason, and use reason to explain it
[Taylor,R on Socrates]
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5836
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All human virtues are increased by study and practice
[Socrates, by Xenophon]
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5840
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The wise perform good actions, and people fail to be good without wisdom
[Socrates, by Xenophon]
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185
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Socrates despised good looks
[Socrates, by Plato]
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5070
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Socrates conservatively assumed that Athenian conventions were natural and true
[Taylor,R on Socrates]
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5838
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A well-made dung basket is fine, and a badly-made gold shield is base, because of function
[Socrates, by Xenophon]
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339
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Men fear death as a great evil when it may be a great blessing
[Socrates]
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5837
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Things are both good and fine by the same standard
[Socrates, by Xenophon]
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1646
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Socrates was the first to put 'eudaimonia' at the centre of ethics
[Socrates, by Vlastos]
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3017
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The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance
[Socrates, by Diog. Laertius]
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2
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We should not even harm someone who harms us
[Socrates]
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345
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A good man cannot be harmed, either in life or in death
[Socrates]
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4323
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Socrates is torn between intellectual virtue, which is united and teachable, and natural virtue, which isn't
[PG on Socrates]
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8003
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Socrates agrees that virtue is teachable, but then denies that there are teachers
[Socrates, by MacIntyre]
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126
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We should ask what sort of people we want to be
[Socrates]
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23907
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Courage is scientific knowledge
[Socrates, by Aristotle]
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346
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One ought not to return a wrong or injury to any person, whatever the provocation
[Socrates]
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4111
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Socrates believed that basically there is only one virtue, the power of right judgement
[Socrates, by Williams,B]
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7808
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Socrates made the civic values of justice and friendship paramount
[Socrates, by Grayling]
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341
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Wealth is good if it is accompanied by virtue
[Socrates]
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7585
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Socrates emphasises that the knower is an existing individual, with existence his main task
[Socrates, by Kierkegaard]
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5841
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Obedience to the law gives the best life, and success in war
[Socrates, by Xenophon]
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347
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Will I stand up against the law, simply because I have been unjustly judged?
[Socrates]
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1661
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Socrates was the first to grasp that a cruelty is not justified by another cruelty
[Vlastos on Socrates]
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5846
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A lover using force is a villain, but a seducer is much worse, because he corrupts character
[Socrates, by Xenophon]
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338
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Socrates is accused of denying the gods, saying sun is stone and moon is earth
[Socrates, by Plato]
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