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A 6 page paper discussing Socrates' lasting influence immediately following his death. Certainly Socrates (c. 469-399 BC) was not the first of the Greek philosophers, but he was the first of those that gain continued attention millennia after they lived. Socrates had direct influence on both Plato and Plato's student Aristotle. The purpose here is to use Plato's The Republic and Aristotle's Poetics to demonstrate. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Certainly Socrates (c. 469-399 BC) was not the first of the Greek philosophers, but he was the first of those that gain continued attention millennia after they lived. Socrates
had direct influence on both Plato and Platos student Aristotle. The purpose here is to use Platos The Republic and Aristotles Poetics to demonstrate. Socrates
Socrates was sentenced to death in 399 B.C., accused of corrupting the minds of Athens youth and so being a menace to society. Likely he was
a menace only to Athens leaders and the image they sought to project of themselves. If there were written records of Socrates work,
none survived. Aristophanes and Plato wrote about him indirectly; Platos Socrates was a central character in much of his work, and certainly in his early dialogues (Carr, 1997).
Plato consistently presented Socrates "as endlessly questioning, shattering the false claims of his contemporaries" (Carr, 1997). In the writings of others, "Socrates is
described as having neglected his own affairs, instead spending his time discussing virtue, justice, and piety wherever his fellow citizens congregated" (Socrates, n.d.). He used a method now known
as the Socratic dialogue that in many ways can be compared to todays constructivist approach to education in which he "drew forth knowledge from his students by pursuing a series
of questions and examining the implications of their answers" (Socrates, n.d.). Plato Socrates student Plato essentially gave Socrates a means of continuing to
be able to have a voice. In his early dialogues, "we rarely find Socrates lecturing or directly answering the questions; instead we find him asking questions of others in
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