Can anybody help me with a thesis statement?

Question

i need help on my reasearch paper. im doing it on socrates. and i need a thesis statement that will stand out. something about how he changes pplz lifes.
if any one can help thanks it would be abb. appreciated.

Answer 1

A thesis is the result of a lengthy thinking process. Formulating a thesis is not the first thing you do after reading an essay assignment. Before you develop an argument on any topic, you have to collect and organize evidence, look for possible relationships between known facts (such as surprising contrasts or similarities), and think about the significance of these relationships. Once you do this thinking, you will probably have a "working thesis," a basic or main idea, an argument that you think you can support with evidence but that may need adjustment along the way.

If you have done your research and your analysis, you should have a working thesis. Assuming you do, and you have written the rest of your paper (always start in the middle) - the conclusion and introduction come last. You might need to modify your working thesis based on what you have learned.

If your paper is about how Socrates changed people's lives and your subsequent paragraphs and conclusion support this, then a statement about how he changed peoples lives is exactly what you need.

I don't know where in your research you came of with the thesis that he changed people's lives.

The most interesting and influential thinker in the fifth century was Socrates, whose dedication to careful reasoning transformed the entire enterprise. Since he sought genuine knowledge rather than mere victory over an opponent, Socrates employed the same logical tricks developed by the Sophists to a new purpose, the pursuit of truth. Thus, his willingness to call everything into question and his determination to accept nothing less than an adequate account of the nature of things make him the first clear exponent of critical philosophy.

Although he was well known during his own time for his conversational skills and public teaching, Socrates wrote nothing, so we are dependent upon his students (especially Xenophon and Plato) for any detailed knowledge of his methods and results. The trouble is that Plato was himself a philosopher who often injected his own theories into the dialogues he presented to the world as discussions between Socrates and other famous figures of the day. Nevertheless, it is usually assumed that at least the early dialogues of Plato provide a (fairly) accurate representation of Socrates himself.

Socrates wrote nothing because he felt that knowledge was a living, interactive thing. Socrates' method of philosophical inquiry consisted in questioning people on the positions they asserted and working them through questions into a contradiction, thus proving to them that their original assertion was wrong.

Answer 2

Specifically, Socrates is renowned for developing the practice of a philosophical type of pedagogy, in which the teacher asks questions of the student in order to elicit the best answer, and fundamental insight, on the part of the student.

Socrates is credited with exerting a powerful influence upon the founders of Western philosophy, most particularly Plato and Aristotle, and while Socrates' principal contribution to philosophy is in the field of ethics, he also made important and lasting contributions to the fields of epistemology and logic.

Answer 3

a thesis declaration basicly your essay summed up right into a sentance...Normally you've gotten an issue and a controversy...The matter being the subject of the essay and the argument being your aspect at the matter(to me that was once confuzing). The thesis statment is supose to be to your Intro Paragraph and reworded to your end.

Answer 4

do what i do, go to a thesaurus and change up the words.