Apology

In the Apology the concept of “pursuer” death and “pursuer” wickedness is introduced after Socrates is handed his sentence in his trial. Socrates associates the “pursuer” wickedness with all the people that voted against him in his trial, along with his accusers. Socrates believes that it is more difficult to outrun the “pursuer” wickedness than it is to outrun the “pursuer” death but, Socrates explicitly states that he would rather be outrun by the pursuer of death, than be outrun by the…

speaking to the jury in a conversational matter and just being deliberate about everything. Why he does this you may ask and not just do things the traditional way by having a prepared speech basically owning up to his mistakes or giving some sort of an apology. Is that one he is not going to lie and say what he did was bad in any way. Two he thinks that if he goes off the cuff with his speech with a man of his age people are much more going to accept what he says as truth than if it was a…

The Types of Socrates In The Trials of Socrates, we are shown different view points of the Greek philosopher, Socrates. However, none of these views come directly from the philosopher. Socrates had never published anything during his lifetime, therefore all his beliefs are recounted second hand. This is unreliable as it becomes ambiguous whether or not these views being written down are purely Socrates’ thoughts or if the authors bias has trickled into argument. These differing accounts have…

“Socrates is a doer of evil, and corrupter of the youth, and he does not believe in the gods of the state, and has other new divinities of his own” (Apology, 5). Clearly Socrates was not admired by the one who spoke these words. Although Socrates was admired by many, the poor reputations of the sophists combined with Socrates’ disbelief in the Athenian gods led to the city fearing and mistrusting philosophy, ultimately prompting Socrates’ downfall. The city of Athens feared and generally…

In Plato’s apology he lays out all of the charges that Socrates faced. These charges included corrupting the children of Athens, impiety to the Gods and Goddesses of the City. Socrates also faced the charge of teaching things and not taking a fee unlike that sophists…

First, the primary accusation was brought by Meletus that Socrates did not believe in the God of Athens, which means as well that he is being accused of atheism. Meletus call that Socrates “did not believe in the gods of the city and doesn’t believe in other gods”. By Meletus claiming this of Socrates, at the same time he is accusing him for not believing in any God. Therefore, here we identify a contradiction within his accusation, as we see Socrates cannot at the same moment be an atheism and…

In The Trials of Socrates by Plato, a common theme arises among the three Platonic dialogues Apology, Crito, and Phaedo Death Scene: injustice. Apology details the trial of Socrates, and displays how the philosopher defended himself, and his character, against unfounded accusations. Crito narrates the interaction between Crito and Socrates, in which Crito tries to persuade the condemned to commit an unjust action in exchange for his freedom. Phaedo Death Scene recounts the execution of Socrates…

actually learn about, therefore it leaves the reader to wonder whether any biased opinions were involved when writing the play. Even though Socrates himself did not write the Apology we know for a fact that Plato was a student of Socrates who believed in doing the just and unjust thing, much of the point for the play Apology anyhow. As this is the case it is only logical to assume that he is doing the just thing and reporting the judgement as Socrates as it happened. This means that even if…

Plato's - The Apology Trials have been around for centuries, which are for the accused to be able to defend oneself from the accusations that are set upon him. An important trial was during 399 B.C which was for the man named Socrates, he was on trial for ancient accusations, impiety, for as well as the corruption of youth of Athens. Socrates had three accusers, the name of the three accusers are Anytus, Meletus, and Lycon. He starts defending himself from the new accusations first, then…

Final Exam: Clever Speech After reading The Trial and Death of Socrates and Meditations on First Philosophy I would consider both Socrates and Descartes clever speakers in their own way. Their approach to speaking are very different but they have a way of being extremely meticulous with their use of language. By doing so, they both reach a point of being what many may consider “clever”. I on the other hand would not consider them clever. In my opinion, Socrates speaks in a more manipulative…