Apology

remarks find him urging the "gentlemen of the jury" to "fix [their] minds on one belief, which is certain -- that nothing can harm a good man either in life or after death, and his fortunes are not a matter of indifference to the gods." (41d, the Apology). To put it differently, Socrates says that he remains faithful to the idea of the search of the truth for the benefit of Athens until the very end. Is not he a "champion of justice"…

In 399 B.C Socrates, a Greek Philosopher, had been sentenced to death after being found guilty to heresy and corrupting the minds of the young. This trial heavily depended on the unpopularity of Socrates, due to him having wounded the pride of many prominent men in Athens. Plato’s writings of Socrates on Trial displays Socrates’ criticism during his trial of both Athenian society and democracy by highlighting the biases of the people, and the flaws in the democracy of the time. Socrates was a…

As a result, Socrates had no fear of death. In Plato’s Apology, he says that…

eventually got him into trouble with the Athenian government. In 399 B.C., the Athenian Assembly charged Socrates with disrespecting the gods and corrupting the Athenian youth. Socrates’ trial was well documented by one of his students, Plato, in The Apology. When the jury questioned Socrates’ behavior, he defended himself by saying that the oracle Delphi claimed that he was the wisest of all men. Socrates must be wiser than other men in the way that he knows that he knows nothing. Socrates then…

I find this to be a very thought provoking argument. The legal system in Athens had laws that were so vaguely defined that it is difficult to say in certain cases who is innocent and who is not. In Plato’s “Apology”, Socrates says to the court that “it is not difficult to avoid death, gentleman; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death” (39b). Socrates accepts his sentence, but says that his accusers are wicked and unjust…

Plato the famous philosopher Socrates once said "The greatest good of a man is daily to converse about virtue, and all that concerning which you hear me examining myself and others, and that the life which is unexamined is not worth living" (Plato, Apology). This course, which is a diploma in the psychology of counselling, has contained within it a module on personal development and self awareness. This module challenges us to examine our core values, beliefs and prejudices and behaviours..…

The Socrates’ account of the oracle at Delphi was the one of most famous and most valued oracle of the historic. The account was confirmed by Xenophon and the oracle professed Socrates to be “free, straight, and practical individuals” somewhat than the utmost wise. In the case, it explains that the oracle state an optimistic claim about Socrates. The thought of Socrates is implemented by the Plato anxious about moral questions, and so that we able to recognized Xenophon’s and Plato figure by…

The book retells the trial and the long conversations held by Socrates and his comrades before he is to drink the poison. Socrates views and ideas about the world were much different than that of the current population. These ideas led him to be accused of corrupting the young and creating new Gods while denying the existence of old ones [Plato 2]. He also speculates the heavens and the earth beneath, making the worse appear the better cause [Plato 20]. Socrates prosecutors called him an…

Socrates was one of the best philosophers that the world has ever seen. He was even put to death for some his teachings, and he accepted it. The also great Plato was one of Socrates’ students. Plato was also the author of the republic which holds his allegory of the cave philosophy. This allegory has been used in modern day, especially in movies. One great example of a movie that uses the allegory of the cave is Shutter Island. Plato's allegory of the cave begins with prisoners that are chained…

Jacques-Philip-Joseph de Saint-Quentin was born in Paris in 1738. He painted works of art during the famous Rococo period. Unlike many Rococo period pieces, “The Death of Socrates” focused on the anatomy and muscularity of the human body. The painting itself is full of symbolism. At first glance, the eye gravitates toward the center of the piece where Socrates himself is draped in a bright yellow robe with a white garment lying over him. You see the darkness on his face as he grips his chest.…