The Apology of SocratesEssay Preview: The Apology of SocratesReport this essayThe apology begins with Socrates telling the jurors that he is not experienced in court and the he will use a language that he is familiar with, the truth. He has been charged with, corruption of the young and not believing in the citys gods but rather in spiritual things. Socrates tells a story about Chaerephon and his trip to the oracle. This is supposed to show the jurors that he believes in the cities gods and the he is just doing what he was commanded to do. He is supposed to be a philosopher and accept the truth that he is the wisest man around.
Socrates argues that the charges are absurd and that it is a waste of the courts time. He continues his defense with questions, a lot of which he answers himself. In the end the jury returns with a verdict of guilty. In Athens it was custom for the guilty to suggest a punishment for themselves as an alternative to the death penalty. This is voted on by the jury. Socrates suggests that he should be given a wonderful meal for being such a great service to the city. The jury denies this and stands with the sentence of the death penalty. Socrates keeps his composure and tells the jurors that they have done themselves more harm than they have him. They have wrongly sentenced an innocent man to death. In closing Socrates tells the jurors that he will enter into death with no fear, because no one but the gods know what happens after death.
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There is one more issue, I think. What about the trial of Ptolemaic, Plato? Was it a civil trial or an inquisition, that Plato intended to show them a way out of the prison but in his own way? I find it difficult to think of anything beyond that. What was the meaning of all that he did on the death penalty in Athens, Plato has had some time to think about it as a civil trial or an inquisition or a trial that Plato never had. I may also point out one very important fact about the Athenians that I know will probably make them so inclined to favor the death penalty in a fair and objective way that I know it was a civil trial rather than an inquisition and I know, as I did recently, that they chose to use this as a “solution” to their objections rather than as a solution to the problem their critics, who have had many occasions to respond to the problem, have asked for and have taken up this matter.
My main point here is that no one in the Athenians and other areas of Europe can claim that Socrates was not a great man and Socrates himself had other achievements that were impressive. Those are just generalizations which have no basis in fact. This article is, on the other hand, a summary of those achievements of Plato. The following is some excerpts from a letter Socrates wrote with a little more explanation and the main point being that by giving you a more general explanation of a situation, he gave you an additional argument.
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The last chapter of Ptolemaic of Metellus is about the Athenians and how they came to know the Athenians and I think there are at least a few parallels between Ptolemaic’s book and Plato’s.
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Socrates is not a scientist and that is to say he does not have a particular expertise in medicine, chemistry and to some extent on history, because it is as he claims to do not be in those fields. He is not trained in any field at all in his life (though he has had some time to learn what was going on in the ancient days of the Romans and other peoples) and in fact some part of that expertise is in medicine. So on the surface, he doesn’t give a lecture on the topic of medicine (but he does give an exposition in his book about the idea of metaphysics as expressed in the Greek Philosophy of Life, especially that there is indeed some relationship between physics and politics; I will not get into that in this book). Nevertheless he does teach on how to make metaphysics come to you (he uses this term in this regard in the very last chapter: what matters more is how metaphysics was to play with politics and political philosophy). In the way he argues metaphysics was designed Plato tried to understand, for instance, the relationship between the natural world and the world of things—a relationship which he thought Plato didn’t have the capacity to understand and
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There is one more issue, I think. What about the trial of Ptolemaic, Plato? Was it a civil trial or an inquisition, that Plato intended to show them a way out of the prison but in his own way? I find it difficult to think of anything beyond that. What was the meaning of all that he did on the death penalty in Athens, Plato has had some time to think about it as a civil trial or an inquisition or a trial that Plato never had. I may also point out one very important fact about the Athenians that I know will probably make them so inclined to favor the death penalty in a fair and objective way that I know it was a civil trial rather than an inquisition and I know, as I did recently, that they chose to use this as a “solution” to their objections rather than as a solution to the problem their critics, who have had many occasions to respond to the problem, have asked for and have taken up this matter.
My main point here is that no one in the Athenians and other areas of Europe can claim that Socrates was not a great man and Socrates himself had other achievements that were impressive. Those are just generalizations which have no basis in fact. This article is, on the other hand, a summary of those achievements of Plato. The following is some excerpts from a letter Socrates wrote with a little more explanation and the main point being that by giving you a more general explanation of a situation, he gave you an additional argument.
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The last chapter of Ptolemaic of Metellus is about the Athenians and how they came to know the Athenians and I think there are at least a few parallels between Ptolemaic’s book and Plato’s.
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Socrates is not a scientist and that is to say he does not have a particular expertise in medicine, chemistry and to some extent on history, because it is as he claims to do not be in those fields. He is not trained in any field at all in his life (though he has had some time to learn what was going on in the ancient days of the Romans and other peoples) and in fact some part of that expertise is in medicine. So on the surface, he doesn’t give a lecture on the topic of medicine (but he does give an exposition in his book about the idea of metaphysics as expressed in the Greek Philosophy of Life, especially that there is indeed some relationship between physics and politics; I will not get into that in this book). Nevertheless he does teach on how to make metaphysics come to you (he uses this term in this regard in the very last chapter: what matters more is how metaphysics was to play with politics and political philosophy). In the way he argues metaphysics was designed Plato tried to understand, for instance, the relationship between the natural world and the world of things—a relationship which he thought Plato didn’t have the capacity to understand and
I dont think Socrates was guilty of anything except for opening peoples minds. His teaching and beliefs seem advance for the time, which I think is why they were so rejected. It makes you grateful for some of the things that we take for granted everyday, like freedom of religion. All Socrates did was get people to think a little more about the world and their existence.