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Plato on the soul; Ring of Gyges; morality and the form of the Good

Read the Socratic dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo

Parmenides, change denied,
Only being does abide.
Illusion is what change we see,
Reality's one, eternally.

Zeno's paradoxes show,
Motion's puzzles make us slow.
In the halves, the race does stall,
Logic's challenge to us all.

Democritus, atoms small,
Building blocks of one and all.
Indivisible and free,
Forming all the things we see.

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Anaximander, bold and wide,
Said the boundless does reside.
Apeiron, the source so vast,
From it all things are cast.

Xenophanes, gods he scorned,
Human shapes, he found forlorn.
One true god, all-knowing, wise,
Beyond the tales and human lies.

Heraclitus saw the flow,
Change is all we come to know.
In the fire, all things shift,
Flux is constant, never stiff.

Starting again! Finished chapter 1.

Dialogues: Crito and Phaedo (Death Scene).

“Such was the end of our comrade [Socrates]... a man who, we would say, was of all those we have known the best, and also the wisest and the most upright.”

Reading the dialogues of Socrates, including “the Apology”.