Essay about Comparison of Socrates and Siddhartha Guatama...

Socrates and Siddhartha Guatama Buddha have many similarities; they both believe in the importance of justice and good, and a simpler way of life. However, they have different goals: Socrates concerns with worldly meanings and codes, he deals with truth and morals. Buddha concerns with attaining the outer-worldly through mastering the worldly. Socrates relinquishes sensual desires in hopes of spiritual rebirth after death and achieving enlightenment in life. Buddha relinquishes the same ideas, but in hopes of living an enlightened life on earth. (The Dhammapada: Socrates Buddha Vs. Desire) My contention is to compare Philosopher Socrates from Plato and Siddhartha Guatama Buddha, and I will demonstrate their similarities and differences†¦show more content†¦In contrasting, other believers view abortion as an immorality. Because of this, the principle of free will does not allow any forecast based on the so-called prior cause, but it allows the self-determined and the externa l forces. The fact is that the principles of ethics are products of human beings, and moral responsibility itself is not indistinguishable in different traditions and societies. Therefore, according to Libertarians The Ideas of Free Will and Responsibility in Buddhist Ethics, â€Å" if human beings are controlled by prior causes as a mechanistic system, then human behaviors can be predicted with the same degree of certainty†, however, human behavior is in fact non-mechanistic and exists in a biological system. With this being said, human beings acquire free will. Thus, human existence, in the ethical sense, is controlled not by external surroundings or by any prior foundation, but by the inner free will of each individual. The fact that Socrates sought an authentic knowledge rather than a simple triumph over an opponent, he used the same logical actions developed by the Sophists to a new intention, the pursuit of truth. Even after Socrates has been convicted by the jury, he refuses to dispose of his pursuit of the truth in all matters. Refusing to escape from Athens, he continues that public argument of the matters of life and virtue is