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Table of contents
Raphael: The School of Athens
Is philosophy useless?
Reasoning
Science and Philosophy
Dogmatists and Sceptics
Shared ideas and dialogue
Francisco Goya: The sleep of reason produces monsters
Socrates (c. 468-399 BCE)
The figure of Socrates
Plato’s dialogues
Ethical dialogues
More complex questions
Socrates’ reputation
Athenian Politics
Socrates and the Thirty Tyrants
The Death of Socrates
The indictment against Socrates
About Socrates’ trial
Mike Harris dismisses Socrates
Socrates and later philosophy
DIFFERING VIEWS OF SOCRATES
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Cicero (106 - 43 BCE) Roman politician and intellectual
Cicero’s dialogues
Philosophy as Inquiry
An impossible triangle
More impossible triangles
Escher’s Waterfall
Slide 29
Author:
Janet Sisson
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