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Different portrayals of the figure and character of Socrates
Socrates was an important Greek philosopher during the Socratic period. Socrates was much interested in understanding how the world works. He focused on how people behave, making him a great philosopher of ethics. Through a dialectic approach, Socrates uncovered peoples’ attitude and beliefs when he explored human nature, education, and justice (Badiou 206). Not every philosopher built upon this foundation laid by Socrates, Nietzsche criticized Socrates, describing Socrates as a societal decay.
The Republic by Plato presents a dialogue where Plato discusses what a perfect political system looks like. Most of Plato's writing are written dialogues; Plato does not present his description, but presents Socrates ideas as his own (Badiou 215). In Plato's dialogue, Socrates is the central figure; Socrates is presented as a real person and more of Plato's teacher, than a passive person (Badiou 206).
Socrates ideas are seen through Plato in the republic; Socrates being the main character, Plato uses Socrates as his mouthpiece. Both Socrates and Plato agreed on key ideas, this explains why Socrates is present in Plato’s dialogues (Badiou 220). Plato presents Socrates as an imaginary spokesperson when discussing the value of justice; Socrates is the voice of reason in most of Plato's dialogue. Socrates is always presented as someone who questions people ideas to make them see how their ideas are biased or confined to specific areas of reasoning (Badiou 225).
Many characters in Plato Republic are beaten down by the force of Socratic questioning. Socrates uses series of questions to help his opponents understand the subject matter. Socrates does not give up and keeps the discussion on the right course despite facing resentment from other philosophers (Badiou 211). Even though Polus is angry at Socrates for lashing out at Gorgias, Socrates does not apologize but uses rhetoric skills to convince Polus the difference between good and evil. He wants to Polus to realize his illogic reasoning and make better decisions by being just (Badiou 206).
In the Platonic monologue: The Apology, Socrates is seen to be arrogant and hypercritical to other people. His fixed perspective of viewing things makes him undermine others thinking (Ranasinghe 138). Plato apology presents Socrates as someone who did not see anything wrong in what he was doing; Socrates believed that he was above all men (Ranasinghe 138).
Unlike Plato dialogue the republic, The Apology presents Socrates as the speaker trying to defend himself when accused of injustice. Unlike other dialogues, Plato simply watch his teacher, Socrates (Ranasinghe 141).Socrates acknowledges the presence of his friend Plato in the audience, and Plato sits to watch Socrates during the trial (Ranasinghe 144).
Socrates is charged for failing to recognize the god that is recognized by the state, he is also accused of corrupting the mind of the youth of Athens. Contrary to the title, Socrates speech is not an apology, Socrates attempts to defend his ideologies. Socrates perceive himself as a wiser person more than any man in Athens (Ranasinghe 144). Many people believed that Socrates&rsquo...