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    Socrates Apology Analysis

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    “Apology” is a work of Plato, in which he wrote down defending speech of his teacher Socrates. Socrates was accused by Athenians in making the weaker argument the stronger, teaching about things in the sky and below the earth, and in corrupting the youth and not believing in gods. Socrates stands in the court and tries to refute those accusations, but Athenians vote him guilty. Socrates chooses death, rather then stop spreading his philosophy. In “Apology” he does not only defend himself but…

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    Socrates Piety Analysis

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    Euthyphro is set just before Socrates is prosecuted for creating new Gods and denying the existence of old ones. Socrates speaks to Euthyphro who is about the prosacute his father for the murder of someone who worked on their farm. Looking at the dialog in Euthyphro, key ideas that Socrates puts forward questions their justice system and their beliefs that it’s based on. Socrates questions Euthyphro on why he believes what he is doing is right. Throughout the text Socrates presses for an answer…

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    Socrates is one of the few individuals whom one could say has so-shaped the cultural and intellectual development of the world that, without him, history would be profoundly different. He was the inspiration for Plato, the thinker widely held to be the founder of the Western philosophical tradition and contradicting some situations people might know the truth but refuse to prove it like with Socrates in Plato’s Apology. Socrates clearly took philosophy seriously and his own awareness of…

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    After the fateful trial where Socrates in unjustly condemned to death, his friend Crito appears with the desire to help him escape, upon awakening Socrates makes several arguments where he tries to persuade his friend Crito not to escape his cell, Socrates and Crito argues that the escape Would be unjust because he wouldn’t oppose the laws of Athens that protected his parents and raised him from a child, although he considered the decision that sentenced him to death unjust, he considers that…

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    Socrates’ Nightmare Ignorance has been viewed as the enemy of wisdom and society frowns upon when they (who’s they? People?) simply “don’t know”. In Socrates’ “Apology” recorded by Plato, Socrates shows the audience and the jury that ignorance is not an enemy of wisdom, but it only becomes an enemy if they are not aware of what they do not know. Socrates makes the stunting--(stunning?) remark that “a good man cannot be harm in life or death,” and that killing him will do more harm. He…

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    Socrates and Phaedrus discuss love and erotic love throughout the dialogue of Plato’s Phaedrus. The dialogue also discusses rhetoric itself and the ways in which it is and should be practiced, as well as subjects such as metempsychosis. The dialogue in Phaedrus does not allow for any introductions to explain the story. This is somewhat unusual as it comes as a first-hand dialogue, uninterrupted by nobody and nothing. It plays out almost as if we are witnessing the events ourselves. Socrates’…

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    After Socrates finishes his argument that the soul is like the Forms and therefore is immortal, Simmias interrupts and tries to disprove Socrates’ argument. He begins by comparing Socrates’ argument to a harmony in relation to its instrument (85e-86a). Simmias suggests that a harmony is to a soul as a lyre is to the body. He reasons that, if we accept Socrates’ line of argument, the harmony must not only preexist the lyre but also live on after it is destroyed. I find this reasoning to have one…

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    Phaedo, Socrates states, “I have been saying for some time and at some length that after I have a drunk the poison I shall no longer be with you but will leave you to go and enjoy some good fortunes of the blessed….”(Phaedo 115d). What Socrates essentially meant by this was that the “blessed” are philosophers who understood the truth and did not fear death. They were on earth to think and they understood that the body was something that just got in the way of knowledge. So even though Socrates…

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    Socrates: Let me pose a situation to you, Pentheus; imagine there are people in a cave. These people have been there since childhood, with their bodies shackled so that they can only see that which is right in front of them. They are unable to turn their heads, and know no world except that which is in front of them. Pentheus: I can imagine this, of course. Socrates: Now imagine that there is a fire roaring behind them, and that this fire casts a light onto the wall of the cave in front of them.…

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    The character that I decided to stand by during this dialog is Socrates. It seems like he was the most logical and provided the most facts out of all of the characters. Socrates is for the people before he his for himself. Even though I connected most with Socrates I do stand by Callicles in some of his points. Socrates is basically the goody tushu of all the characters. When I say goody tushu, I mean that he is always trying to do the right thing. Regardless, of the consequence he may face…

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