Canadian Apology Essay

The persuasive tool known as rhetoric has been associated with modern language for many years. The art of rhetoric aims to inform, persuade, and motivate the audience to whom the speech is being addressed. The roots of rhetoric style stretch back to thousands of years ago and has ever since been a constant debate whether it is ethical or unethical. One writer in particular, Plato, felt that rhetoric never leads to anything good, and was only used for bad purposes. Using rhetoric as a persuasive…

The cultural context can be shown through the acropolis and agora. The decision to rebuild the acropolis can show the culture of Athens. This can be seen in Sayre's book called Cultural, Continuity and Change by stating that the acropolis became ""fitting memorial not only to the war but especially to Athena's role in protecting the Athenian people" (141). The political life as well as obligation of the citizen to the state can be seen in the agora which was the cultural hub of the city. The…

consequence he wanted to pay but of what he only deserved. It certain that Socrates had respect for the law. His argument is that death in his eyes shall not be feared. "The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our way, I to die and you to live" (Apology). Why would…

In 399 B.C.E the athenian philosopher socrates, stood on trial for: corrupting the youth, believing in false God’s not of the city, for studying things in the heavens and below the earth, and for making the lesser argument into the stronger. Of the four charges Socrates was only technically on trial for corrupting the youth and believing in false God’s not of the city. However in order to defeat these two charges he must first defeat the other two in the eyes of the jury. Socrates would argue…

1. Socrates’s lack of fear of death is neither courageous nor cowardly, because fear of death is thinking one knows what one does not does not know which illustrates blameworthy ignorance. 2. False wisdom is when men chose have more knowledge in one field compared to the average man, and because of this, they believe that they have even more knowledge in other fields that they actually little or nothing about. Socrates asked various artists and craftsmen about their knowledge and they believe…

The Allegory of the Cave In the Allegory of the Cave, the character Socrates states this about the people living in cave society, “To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.” (Plato, The Allegory of the Cave”) According to Plato, people accept truth as whatever they see, whatever they grow up with. This idea is very simple, but very revolutionary- and it applies to ancient and modern life. In this cave society, there is nothing known to the people…

such as Allegory of the Cave and Apology by Plato seem to parallel work authored by Voltaire. Voltaire’s The Good Brahmin is a metaphorical story about a Brahmin man sensing his life pursuit toward knowledge and wisdom has left him burdensome and empty. To illustrate, the Brahmin man states, “I teach others and myself am ignorant of everything” (Voltaire, n.d.). The confession of ignorance while in pursuit of wisdom is comparable to Socrates’ comments in the Apology. Here, Socrates is speaking…

Socrates position in the trial of Plato’s Apology was not appropriate in my opinion because Plato was a student of the Socrates and I feel he was coached in the way he viewed philosophy, until he sought to find out the truth of what a wise person is and if there were wiser people other than himself. Plato did not believe that Socrates was the wisest, to him wise was seeking the truth with facts and not fallacies and images. Plato felt philosophy had nothing to do with being a physicalist or…

"Successful Failure" Lack of knowledge and trials caused us to take centuries to reach the heights of science and technology, despite the evolution, somehow we are mentally caged in our ancestral beliefs. This essay will develop and empirically examine the evaluation of failure over the period of time. It will also cover the challenges, failure has faced over the last few centuries. In this comparative analysis,we will focus on the similarities between "The Trial and Death of Socrates",and…

contemporaries of Athens. Socrates pleads to the jurors that his trial should be ruled by the justice of the case, not by his manner or rhetorical skills he presents. In The Impiety of Socrates, M.F. Burnyeat provides a new way of understanding Plato’s Apology, and attempts to justify the juror’s decision as to the ultimate conviction of Socrates. Burnyeat’s reading strategy suggests that Socrates fails to defend himself against the charges by Maletus and others. The exact case for the…