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SOCRATES

POLITICAL SCIENCE
CSS PMS PCS
INTRODUCTION

• STRUGGLE OF SOPHISTS POLARIZED THE GREEK


SOCIETY IDEOLOGICALLY AND SOCIALLY
• THE GREAT PHILOSOPHER SOCRATES EMERGED
DURING THE PROCESS
BIOGRAPHY

• LIFE 469- 399 BC


• ORIGIN ATHENS (ATHENS WAS A DEMOCRATIC STATE.
SOCRATE WAS ALSO INFLUENCED BY DEMOCRACY)
• EDUCATION PRELIMINARY EDUCATION FROM FATHER
LATER ON FROM GREEK TEACHERS
• PROFESSION SCULPTOR، MISSIONARY AND TEACHER
• WAR SCIENCE ALTHOUGH HE WAS SCULPTOR BUT
HAD ACQUAINTANCE OF WAR SCIENCES. THAT’S WHY,
SOCRATES NOT ONLY SAVED HIS GREAT GENERAL ALCIBIADES IN
THE BATTLE OF POTIDAEA 432BC BUT PLAYED PIVOTAL ROLE TO
DEFEAT CORINTHIANS (OPPONENTS OF ATHENIANS).
• ACADEMIC STATUS HE HAD UNIQUE STATUS IN POLITICAL
SCIENCE.
• POLITICAL SCIENTISTS- SOCRATES WAS THE GODFATHER OF
WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHTS
• SOPHISTS AND SOCRATES SOCRATES GOT INSPIRATION
FROM THE SOPHIST EDUCATION. BUT HE ADOPTED HIS OWN
DIFFERENT STYLE.
• SOCRATES METHOD OF TEACHING; ELENCHUS,
ELENCTIC METHOD, OR SOCRATIC DEBATE), IS A FORM OF
COOPERATIVE ARGUMENTATIVE DIALOGUE BETWEEN
INDIVIDUALS, BASED ON ASKING AND ANSWERING
QUESTIONS TO STIMULATE CRITICAL THINKING AND TO
DRAW OUT IDEAS AND UNDERLYING PRESUPPOSITIONS.
• SOCRATE AND GOVT HE HAD DIFFERENT VIEW THAN
GREECE. ACCORDING TO HIM; EDUCATED PHILOSOPHERS
SHOULD BE IN GOVT OVER FEUDAL LORDS. HE PERCEIVED
PHILOSOPHER KING AS AN IDEAL RULER.
• ADVOCATE OF MIND (THOUGHT PROCESS). “ON EARTH
THERE IS NOTHING GREAT BUT MAN. IN MAN THERE IS
NOTHING GREAT BUT MIND”
• CONVINCED OF MORALS AND VALUES SOCRATES WAS CONVINCED
OF MORALS AND VALUES AND GAVE IMPORTANCE IT IN POLITICS TOO
• REALIST HE WAS A REALIST PHILOSOPHER. HE ACQUAINTED IT FROM
GREEK SOCIETY. BECAUSE GREECE WERE IN QUEST OF TRUTH AND
REALITY.
• SOCRATES ALWAYS ACCEPTED THINGS AFTER SCIENTIFIC
INVESTIGATION.
SOCRATES VIEWS ABOUT KNOWLEDGE

• HE PRESENTED THE THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE TAKING


INSPIRATION FROM GREEK PHILOSOPHY AND CIVILIZATION.
• VIRTUE IS KNOWLEDGE ANY ACT WHICH HAS ELEMENT
OF WELFARE. VIRTUE IS KNOWLEDGE
• VIRTUE IS ACTIONABLE IT IS TRABSFERABLE AND EASY
TO ACT UPON.
• SCIENCE IS KNOWLEDGE HE NAMED SCIENCE AS
VIRTUE. ACCORDING TO HIM, SCIENCE IS BEYOND THE
DOUBTS LIKE VIRTUE
THINGS WHICH ARE TESTED BY BRAIN AND HEART, THAT
IS SCIENCE. MAN SHOULD TAKE IT.
• VIRTUE IS REALITY
PARTS OF KNOWLEDGE

• REAL KNOWLEDGE KNOWLEDGE BASED ON FACTS AND


BEYOND DOUBTS COULD BE TRUSTED AND ACTIONABLE.
HE WAS ABLE TO FIND VIRTUE, TRUTH AND REALITY FROM
KNOWLEDGE.
• UNREAL KNOWLEDGE KNOWLEDGE BASED ON
SUPERSTITIONS AND IMAGINATIONS. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO ACT
UPON IT. IT IS UNRELIABLE TOO.
• SOCRATES OFTEN USED TO QUOTE; “ONE THING ONLY I
KNOW THAT I KNOW NOTHING”.
• INDICTMENT ON SOCRATES SOCRATES’S EDUCATION
INFLUENCED YOUTH. THE RULING CLASS DISLIKED AND
SENSED THAT SOCRATES WOULD ENDANGER THEIR POWER.
THEY INDICTED THE SOCRATES, “THE CORRUPTER OF YOUTH”.
• SOCRATES AND COURT SOCRATES DEFENDED ALL THE
ALLEGATIONS IN COURT VALIANTLY. HE GAVE WELL
GROUNDED ARGUMENTS BUT COURT REJECTED HIS
ARGUMENTS.
• PUNISHMENT TO SOCRATES COURTS PROVED FALSE
ALLEGATIONS AND ORDERED THE DEATH PENALTY BY DRINKING
HEMLOCK (A HERBAL POISON).
• ESCAPE ADVICE HIS PUPIL GAVE HIM ADVICE TO ESCAPE.
• REFUSED TO VIOLATE LAW HE PREFERRED TO OBEY STATE LAW.
• DEATH 70 YEARS. PREFFERED DEATH AND SACRIFICED LIFE OVER RULES
• LAST WORD. URGED ATHENIAN TOWARDS TRUTH AND VIRTUE. PLATO
WAS STAUNCH ADVOCATE OF SOCRATES’ EDUCATION. HE WAS PUT TO
DEATH DUE TO CONFRONTATION WITH FEUDAL LORDS. HIS TEACHINGS
PROVED BASES FOR “EDUCATED KING”. HE DIRECTED PPOLITICAL SCIENCE
TOWARDS TRUTH, REALITY.

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