Democritus claims that everything that happens is a necessary causal consequence of the prior motion of the atoms and that therefore nothing happens for a purpose. List and describe the steps of Socrates' dialectical method of inquiry. Some believe that the universe is the product of an omnipotent and wise creator. Others think that it is merely the result of the unplanned motions of eternally existing material particles. Socrates thought that losing an argument was more beneficial than winning one.
Punishment is painful.
Most people believe pain is obviously evil. Yet Socrates claims that, if one has done wrong, it is better to be punished than to escape punishment. Explain and evaluate the soundness of his reasoning. Explain the differences between rhetorical method and dialectical method. Pauline tries to convince Demos that God must exist because the world is orderly and anything orderly must have been purposefully designed.