who is the person who inspired you the most in your life time?

Question

write a 1000 words essay based on it snd the person must be socrates.

Answer 1

Socrates was an ancient Greek philosopher who is widely credited for laying the foundation for Western philosophy.

Said to be an Athenian, he is described as having been condemned to death by an Athenian court that had found him guilty of impiety and of corrupting Athenian youth through his teachings. Those giving the account say he chose to die by drinking hemlock, though he had been given the opportunity to go into exile, as he believed exile would both further dishonor the agreement he had willingly made to abide by the laws of Athens, and that he would fare no better teaching in other cities.
Most of what is now known about Socrates is derived from information that recurs across various contemporary sources: the dialogues written by Plato, one of Socrates' students; the works of Xenophon, one of his contemporaries; and writings by Aristophanes and Aristotle. Anything Socrates wrote himself has not survived. Additionally, Aristophanes' account of Socrates is in fact a satirical attack on philosophers and does not purport to be a factual account of events in the life of Socrates. Another complication is the Ancient Greek tradition of scholars attributing their own ideas, theories and sometimes even personal traits to their mentors, a tradition Plato appears to have followed. Gabriele Giannantoni, in his monumental 1991 work Socratis et Socraticorum Reliquiae, attempts to compile every scrap of evidence regarding Socrates, including material attributed to Aeschines Socraticus, Antisthenes and a number of others supposed to have known him.

According to accounts from antiquity, Socrates' father was the sculptor Sophroniscus and his mother Phaenarete, a midwife. Socrates married Xanthippe, who bore him three sons – Lamprocles, Sophroniscus and Menexenus – who were all quite young at the time of his death. Traditionally, Xanthippe is thought to have been an ill-tempered scold, mainly due to her characterization by Xenophon.

It is unclear how Socrates earned a living. According to Xenophon's Symposium, Socrates is reported as saying he devotes himself only to what he regards as the most important art or occupation: discussing philosophy. Although he inherited money following his father's death, it is unlikely it was sufficient to keep him for long. Xenophon and Aristophanes respectively portray Socrates as accepting payment for teaching and running a sophist school with Chaerephon, whilst in Plato's Symposium Socrates explicitly denies accepting payment for teaching. It is possible Socrates relied on the generosity of wealthy and powerful friends such as Crito.

Characters such as Alcibiades – the name of one of Socrates' friends – in the dialogues indicate that Socrates served in the Athenian army during the Peloponnesian War. Plato's Symposium indicates that he was also decorated for bravery. In one instance, Socrates is said to have stayed on the battlefield to protect Alcibiades, probably saving his life; he then sought Alcibiades' recognition rather than accepting any of his own. It is also claimed he showed great hardiness during these military campaigns, such as his walking without shoes or coat during winter.
Socrates lived during the time of the transition from the height of the Athenian Empire to its decline after its defeat by Sparta and its allies in the Peloponnesian War. At a time when Athens was seeking to stabilize and recover from its humiliating defeat, the Athenian public court was induced by three leading public figures to try Socrates for impiety and for corrupting the youth of Athens. This was a time in culture when the Greeks thought of gods and goddesses as being associated with protecting particular cities. Athens, for instance, is named after its protecting goddess Athena. The defeat of Athens in the Peloponnesian War was interpreted as Athena judging the city for not being pious. The last thing Athens needed was more punishment from Athena for one man inciting its citizens to question her or the other gods. In the Apology, Socrates insists that this is a false charge.

According to the version of his defense speech presented in Plato's Apology, Socrates' life as the "gadfly" of Athens began when his friend Chaerephon asked the oracle at Delphi if anyone was wiser than Socrates; the Oracle responded negatively. Socrates, interpreting this as a riddle, set out to find men who were wiser than he was. He questioned the men of Athens about their knowledge of good, beauty, and virtue. Finding that they knew nothing and yet believing themselves to know much, Socrates came to the conclusion that he was wise only in so far as he knew that he knew nothing. Socrates' superior intellect made the prominent Athenians he publicly questioned look foolish, turning them against him and leading to accusations of wrongdoing.

He was nevertheless found guilty as charged, and sentenced to death by drinking a cup of hemlock. Socrates turned down the pleas of his disciples to attempt an escape from prison, drinking the hemlock and dying in the company of his friends. According to the Phaedo, Socrates had a calm death, enduring his sentence with fortitude. The Roman philosopher Seneca attempted to emulate Socrates' death by hemlock when forced to commit suicide by the Emperor Nero.

According to Xenophon and Plato, Socrates had an opportunity to escape, as his followers were able to bribe the prison guards. After escaping, Socrates would have had to flee from Athens. In the painting "Death Of Socrates", under the death bed, there is a tile, which many believe is an escape hatch. As the dialogue Crito makes clear, Socrates refused to escape even in order to evade the execution of his death sentence. Having knowingly agreed to live under the city's laws, he implicitly subjected himself to the possibility of being accused of crimes by its citizens and judged guilty by its jury. To do otherwise would have caused him to break his 'contract' with the state, and by so doing harming it, an act contrary to Socratic principle.

Answer 2

hi JoBu, i might might desire to declare my mom is a real notion to me. She fell in love along with her extreme college candy coronary heart. She had her first new child at 17 and yet yet another at 18. She have been given married at 19 or 20, and then had me at 23. She is a tricky worker, she has worked very difficult for ever ingredient she has and has worked much tougher to maintain us little ones in line. i admire my mom very lots, thank you for asking this large question.

Answer 3

#1. Mahatma Gandhi , Martin Luther King Jnr. , Nelson Mandela
#2 . Do your own bloody homework

Answer 4

Yes, but you must go first. And perhaps you could include an explanation of why if you enrolled for Philosophy 101, you can't be bothered writing your own assignment?

Answer 5

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Answer 6

WHAT"S WRONG WITH IT ANYWAY...

Asker got figured out that since YA is the refuge of sluggards (LAZY BUNS) who can't even be bothered to use a search engine, that he / she would take it to the next level.

NICE TRY Lilyang.

You'll go far in life.

FAR !!!

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Answer 7

Michael Tidy and Simon Potter. Does that help? (both available on internet searches but if you had any brains at all you'd simply but your essay of the internet or, even better, do it yourself)

Answer 8

nice try but i don't think anyone is daft enough to do your work for you.
don't be lazy, if you can't do your own work, why on earth are you wasting your time half heartily studying?

if you want to get anywhere in life use your abilities well. put 100 percent into your work, YOURSELF!
you can do it, get motivated, you'll be proud of yourself when you've achieved a good grade x

Answer 9

Wow. Do you seriously expect someone to write an ESSAY for you?

Answer 10

i am not writing a 1000 word essay just so you can copy it and get out of doing your own homework. the point of school and homework is to LEARN. god forbid... that means you have to do it YOURSELF. otherwise you aren't learning, you're just trying to get through it so you can get out of it.

Answer 11

as socrates was a philosopher why not bring in a grain of sand, its all self explanatory really.