Apology Essay

1. Introduction An apology is arguably the most effective way for a defendant, or other alleged violator of an accepted legal standard, duty or obligation, to demonstrate their assumed responsibility for a wrong committed.’ Whether an apology is heartfelt, or more calculated and pro forma, there is little question that when an apology is delivered, its maker has assumed at least moral responsibility for the act or omission in question.2 Societies tend to respect individuals who “own up” to…

be a standing figure of a system of beliefs that is still exists today. Many people throughout the centuries have taken Socrates words into their own lives despite him being constantly ridiculed for being a disgrace to Athens. Throughout Plato’s Apology to Socrates, Socrates not only defends himself in the courtroom with honest facts about his life, but uses this as his last lecture to humanity in order to convince the people of Athens to follow his apprentices into live a life of virtue. In…

This essay is about Socrates in the Apology. Socrates was a philosopher, a religious fanatic and a man of reason who lived to questioned why things are the way they are, due to his occupation of questioning and reasoning he was later brought to court on charges of corrupting the young and encouraging people not to believe in godly things that are recognized by the state as said by his accusers. During his trial he said quite a numerous things in the Apology and he was found guilty by the juries…

The difference between the cripples’ speech in Lysias, Oration and the Socrates’ second speech in the Apology is what they are defending. In Oration, the cripple is defending his stipend. In Athens, Pericles provided a special assistance program for handicapped people (Kebric, p. 157). The cripple has been receiving assistance for majority of his life. He was accused by someone, who obviously taken a dislike to him, of accepting a stipend from the state when, it is charged, he is quite capable…

The irony lies in the fact that the title is ‘Apology’ however, Socrates isn’t apologizing, rather defending him self against what they’re charging him. The word apology derives from the Greek word apologia, meaning speaking in defense of a cause or of one's beliefs or actions. “As for me, I was almost carried away by them, they spoke so persuasively. And yet almost nothing they said is true”. (Plato, 26) Socrates is merely explaining that he did not intentionally corrupt the youth of Athens,…

The apology of Socrates Never could I have imagined that a book just short of 50 pages could intellectually liberate me and take me straight out of the doldrums. The apology of Socrates showed me beauty and innate importance of philosophy. It showed me the rigid individual rowing up the stream, whatever the cost Socrates never deviates from his just life. By now I have read it more than five times and it never ceased to pay dividends. I never had the idea that life has an inherent or divine…

In the recent discussions about Socrates in The Apology, a controversial issue has been whether Socrates should be considered Man Thinking, as termed by Emerson. On one hand, some argue that because Socrates was unable to use his ideas to act and become powerful in his time, he cannot be considered Man Thinking. From this perspective, Socrates is not Man Thinking because he only thought but did not act upon his ideas, being more like the scholar than Man Thinking. On the other hand, however,…

A Twist on the Meaning of an Apology (A discussion of the three most significant messages within Plato’s Apology) “ … the fact is that neither of us knows anything beautiful and good, but he thinks he does know when he doesn’t, and I don’t know and don’t think I do: so I am wiser than he is by only this trifle … “ (507). Plato is writing this famous dialogue called Apology, from within his teacher’s, Socrates, trial. Socrates is accused of corrupting the youth and being an atheist and in this…

Plato’s Apology (Plato 1-22) is the account of a speech that Socrates makes at a trial in which he is charged with several different accounts against him. The Apology, summarizes the charges that were brought against Socrates and his response towards those accusations made mostly by Meletus. I believe that he made a decent argument. The charges were: that he did not recognize the gods believed in by the state, introducing new deities or inventing them, and that he was corrupting the youth of…

I chose to write about the Apology of Socrates. This is about Socrates where he was trying to defend himself from the Athenian Council. Socrates was accused of an evil-doer and teaches the aforesaid doctrines to others. He was also accused of “a curious person, who searches into things under the earth and heaven, and he makes the worse appear the better cause.” Meletus and Anytus were two of the accuser. At the end Socrates made a speech about apologizing how he speak normal in front of…