Socrates vs. Plato

One of the areas of greatest disagreement between Plato and Socrates was on the issue of incontinence and how the idea manifests itself in people’s lives. This was one of the first areas in which Plato made a point of disagreeing with his teacher. As a consequence he develops a very different theory of motivation as compared to Socrates. We will look at Socrates’ theory as well as Plato’s and then decide if …

…that this idea was always a problem for Socrates because he always felt that it was a very intuitive idea and that there wasn’t really a need for explanation. Plato came to understand this problem on a more intellectual level than Socrates ever did. So from an explanatory standpoint Plato definitely outlines his case much better than Socrates ever did but Socrates was really only ever arguing based on his intuition regarding the subject.