Socrates

Unfortunately, as Thrasymachus said more than 2,000 years ago in his dialogue with Socrates, justice is nothing other than the advantage of the stronger. At the end of 2015 we will meet in Paris for the twenty-first Conference of the Parties

Al-Khalifa for her excellent work as President at the sixty-first session. Romania fully subscribes to the statement delivered by His Excellency José Socrates, the Prime Minister of Portugal, on behalf of the European Union. I would also like to add some reflections on the interests of my country. Romania r

e have to unite the force of our ideas and resources and mobilize what we have in common — that is, our humanity. As taught to us by the philosopher Isocrates, the condition for peace is not money, which buys men, or force, which subjugates them; it is the all-encompassing power of goodwill. The United Nati

ntity and of nourishing dignity. The same is true of our "lavalasian" policy. We take from it the sap of liberating truth and democratic ethics. From Socrates to Heidegger, from Hegel to Jean-Paul Sartre, over and above philosophical differences, our political ethic makes it essential for us to seek truth f

A Bolivian writer has said: Two of the greatest mistakes made by mankind were to condemn Socrates and to manufacture the atomic bomb. The first did violence to, the meaning of justice; the second showed man the road to his own destruction. 69. Ins

when Chile will fully restore its traditional democratic patterns, we ask that they remember ancient and modern history. More than 23 centuries ago, Socrates observed that governmental systems ran in cycles: absolute monarchy or one-man rule is followed by oligarchy, or the rule by the few, which in turn o

mon sense. 253. Let us recall that the greatest sages of all time, men we today constantly turn to for reference and guidance on human problems, like Socrates, Plato, Confucius, Mohammed, Buddha or Jesus, did not live in a mechanized world; they lived in conditions that could today be called primitive by ou

is so overloaded that it has become vacuous. Perhaps it is here that we should start: by defining the meaning of "terrorism", Wisdom, in the words of Socrates, begins with the definition of terms. Oratorical virtuosity, consummate fabrications and insolent demagogy cannot lead us very far. 83. Yes, let us d

ows of the dark sea, .was the work of a humble monk, author of the Sermon of the Advent, who was later to work with Francisco de Vitoria, the Spanish Socrates, to embody in public international law the fundamental concept of the inviolability of the rights of the/ individual. 24. That missionary was called

repared to adhere to and honour in his dealings with his fellow man. The world has had many great teachers and philosophers such as Christ, Mohammed, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Buddha, Confucius and others who sought to lay down certain concepts of religion and moral conduct; but men, like nations, have ge

is worth a large number of Charters devoid of implementation. After all, the principles of the Charter are as old as Plato, if not older. But it was Socrates alone who drank the hemlock. Our present Charter is not an isolated invention which was miraculously found in the streets of San Francisco. The editi

ecial importance in the case of Greece, a country which occupied so high a place in the history of civilization through the far-reaching influence of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Archimedes, Aeschylus and Anacreon, and the incomparable marble beauty of the mutilated Venus of Melos or the headless Victory of