Saturday, September 22, 2007

Syllogism

This is moving back a little bit but today my friends and I were using syllogisms in our conversation which reminded us of our CORE classes. In Plato's readings, Socrates also converses in syllogisms. Such as when he talks to Crito about leaving on pages 49 and 50; he starts with establishing that one must never do wrong, which also means "mistreating people is no different from wrongdoing." From this he realizes that "when one has come to an agreement that is just with someone, [one should] fulfill it" and since all of this is true, it must mean that if Socrates flees the city without permission, he is mistreating people who he should least mistreat, which would be wrong and the first thing extablished in this conversation was that one should never do wrong.

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