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Gazette des beaux-arts, 6th ser., 19 (1938), pp. 311–15, ill., assumes that the picture was commissioned in March 1786 by Trudaine de Montigny; publishes a letter dated April 8, 1786, by Jean Félicissme Adry, a classicist who, at David's request, wrote that he would study David's sketch ("contempler votre esquisse") and also suggested the choice of attitudes for Socrates's disciples ...
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The Death of Socrates. Jacques Louis David French. ca. 1782...
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Sentenced to death for corrupting the youth of Athens, he...
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Sep 16, 2005 · The philosopher Socrates remains, as he was in his lifetime (469–399 B.C.E.), [1] an enigma, an inscrutable individual who, despite having written nothing, is considered one of the handful of philosophers who forever changed how philosophy itself was to be conceived. All our information about him is second-hand and most of it vigorously ...
Feb 20, 2004 · Plato discusses love (erôs) and friendship (philia) primarily in two dialogues, the Lysis and the Symposium, though the Phaedrus also adds significantly to his views.In each work, Socrates as the quintessential philosopher is in two ways center stage, first, as a lover of wisdom (sophia) and discussion (logos), and, second, as himself an inverter or disturber of erotic norms.
Socrates, often hailed as the father of Western philosophy, was a figure whose ideas and methods have profoundly shaped the course of human thought. Born in the 5th century BC in Athens, Greece, Socrates never wrote down his teachings, yet his philosophical inquiries laid the groundwork for much of Western logic and moral philosophy. His life and teachings, passed down through the writings of ...
Jul 24, 2019 · The Death of Socrates by Jacques-Louis David In ancient Athens, individual behavior was maintained by a concept known as 'Eusebia' which is often translated into English as 'piety' but more closely resembles 'duty' or 'loyalty to a course'. In refusing to conform to the social propieties proscribed by Eusebia, Socrates angered many of the more important men of the city who could, rightly ...
Nov 2, 2009 · To avoid misunderstanding, we must qualify the sense in which Plato develops a theory of love. First of all, the Greeks have two terms corresponding to “love” in English or amour in French: erōs and philia, which are quite different in meaning from one another. Plato's theory is almost exclusively concerned with erōs.
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Sep 16, 2005 · The philosopher Socrates remains, as he was in his lifetime (469–399 B.C.E.), [1] an enigma, an inscrutable individual who, despite having written nothing, is considered one of the handful of philosophers who forever changed how philosophy itself was to be conceived. All our information about him is second-hand and most of it vigorously ...
