Because the information on my topic is so vague, a lot of the information is repeated or is in dialogue form. Even so, I tried to get as much information as I could. I started out using the Brittanica Online for my first database. I typed in the words “Socrates” AND “Greece” AND “philosophy.” I came across the article, “Ethics: Ancient Greece.” The Bibliography is:"ethics." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2007. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 13 Nov.2007 <http://search.eb.com/eb/article-252521>.
In this article I found out that:
The first philosophers were known as the “Seven Sages,” beginning with Plato, not Socrates.
Socrates was considered a sophist, the early word for philosopher, or a teacher of rhetoric and argument.
Next I went to the World Wide Web. I went to google.com and typed in the same thing “Socrates Greece philosophy.” On the very top on the page I found an article called, “Greek Philosophy: Socrates.” The year it was published was 1996 by Richard Hooker from the section “world civilizations” of the Washington State University home page. I did this search on November 13, 2007. From this article I learned:
Socrates was the teacher of Alcibiades, who persuaded Athens to send a huge force to Sicily in an attempt to take over some of the cities there.
Scholars are not sure whether or not the information about Socrates that came from Plato’s works is true.
Then, I went to was the library catalog. Like I said before, the information on Socrates is so vague, that it all repeats; however, I did find a book that I checked out and used it to get more info. The book was “Socratic Citizenship” by Dana Villa and it was published in 2001, found on November 9, 2007 by me. I used pages 311 to 319. The book did not really talk about Socrates, but rather compared and contrasted Philosophy and society. It explained how philosophy plays a major part in our world today.
Lastly I went to a discipline database and found nothing really relevant or new about Socrates. This was particularly hard to find because I did not know where to find a discipline database. However, like I said, the information was very irrelevant.
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Good work on the first three searches - lots of detail, an awareness of what you were reading, etc.
In terms of the database related to your discipline, you could have found something in ProjectMUSE. It looks as if you just ran out of steam. There's plenty of information out there for you to find and ProjectMUSE is just one database that can give you information.
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