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Jesus Christ and Socrates
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Death of Socrates
Death of Jesus
Socrates
- guilty of:
- corrupting the youth
- disrespecting the gods
- response:
- philosophic indifference
- apology
Jesus
- roman law vs. jewish law
- guilty of:
- blasphemy (sanhedrin)
- roman court:
- revolutionary activity
- inciting tax evasion
- claiming to be king
- response:
- calm
"God orders me to fulfill the philosopher's mission of searching into myself and other men, I were to desert my post through fear of death, or any other fear; that would indeed be strange, and I might justly be arraigned in court for denying the existence of the gods"
Jesus Christ and Socrates
Rodrigue Achu, Juan Carlos Garcia
Philosophy of Socrates
Socrates' Actions:
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
All humans:
1. Seek happiness
2. Avoid suffering
Things that cause:
- happiness = good
- pain = bad
elenchus: form of discussion or questioning that stimulates critical thinking
- usually end in aporia
examples of elenchus:
- what is justice?
- where are just men found?
Problems
- Mistaken conceptions of good and bad
Solution
- Virtue
knowledge = virtue = happiness
Actions of Jesus:
Philosophy of Jesus:
storge, philia, eros, agape
Jesus spreads his message through:
- parables
- dialogues
- charity
- miracles
1. Love
- relationship with God
- relationship with neighbors
2. Adherence to divine law
The Death of Socrates,
Jacques-Louis David, 1787
Lamentation over the Dead Christ,
Tintoretto, 1560
Why are they important?
The good life?
- Jesus': love, divine law, and God.
- Socrates: knowledge, virtue, happiness
Jesus
- Christianity
- social influence
Socrates
- influenced: Plato, Aristotle, etc,
- rational way of thinking
- schools of philosophy