This paper examines two seemingly contradictory views of piety found in Plato’s Euthyphro and Crito. Using the Socratic dialogues for evidence of what Socrates actually believed and to piece together a Socratic account of piety, it seems that his argument in favor of remaining in prison is inconsistent with his own beliefs. The paper concludes that Socrates ought not to have thought it was impi...

The SOCRATES (Self-Optimisation and self-ConfiguRATion in wirelEss networkS) project aims at the development of self-organisation methods for LTE radio networks. Self-organisation comprises self-optimisation, self-configuration and self-healing. Within this document a framework, or guidelines, are laid out that are to be the basis for the development of self-organisation functionalities within ...

This article presents the case study of a cooperative Web-learning environment — SOCRATES — to foster barrier-free learning on the Web. While the growth of the Internet was exponential in the last years, still many communities don’t benefit from Web-learning technology due to improper tools and constricted communication processes. These problems increase when developing applications for communi...

A long-standing debate among moral philosophers centers on the question of whether ignorance is always at the root of moral wrongdoing, or whether, in certain cases, wrongdoing stems from something else—namely akrasia. This paper is a discussion of how undergraduate core curriculum teachers can incorporate Augustine’s work into this debate. I begin by briefly reconstructing Socrates’ and Aristo...

Abstract At Republic 422e1-423a2, while discussing Callipolis and its ability to wage war, Socrates makes a punning reference the ancient boardgame polis . In this contest, two opponents deployed sets of identical pessoi (counters) surround capture enemy’s forces. Socrates’ allusion is not simply amusing; it well-suited dialogue’s philosophical content historical context. With regard philosophy...

Considering the Theaetetus and Statesman together – as the two dialogues explicitly said to flank the Sophist -both raises and suggests answers to questions about the relationship between philosopher and statesman, and the relationship between Socrates and the Eleatic Stranger. It is argued that aspects of the Theaetetus ‘Digression’ on the nature of philosophers serve to criticise the question...