‘The Apology’ by Plato was about Socrates’ trial. Socrates at the age of seventy he had been convicted for breaking the law against ‘impiety’. This was for offending the Olympian gods (Zeus, Apollo and the rest of them) recognized in the city and occasions (17). Socrates was allowed to defend himself but haters would not listen to his ideas. Socrates believed in speaking the truth, which was his true character and was revealed.…
Both Plato and Cornel West demonstrate important ways of teaching a student how to think in a similar way. One way being how being wrong can be beneficial throughout their stories the “Apology” and “On My Intellectual Vacation.” In Cornel West “On My Intellectual Vacation” When he notions towards being wrong is beneficial on page 24 “In other words it is not a matter of pointing fingers or calling name, but really showing that you are in the very mess that you are trying to grasp. Moreover this tends to open people up a little bit.…
To Late to Apologize In Apology and Crito, Plato portrays Socrates as a man who cared deeply for his city, and never compromised his integrity not even in the face of death. Socrates is a hero who believed that philosophy upheld the integrity of the city, and used it to fight the growing greed, ignorance, and corruption he saw in Athens. Socrates noticed the growing focus on wealth in Athens. He saw that people were eager “ to possess as much wealth …as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth” (32) In Apology, He states “ Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men.”…
When A Five Year Old Asks Why Have you ever met a kid who asked why to literally every answer given to them? In Plato’s Apology, Socrates attempted to defend the charges against him through cross examination and as he proposed his defense he concluded that an unexamined life is not worth living. While Socrates faced a death sentence, he continued to do so without fear of death, unlike Ivan Ilych in The Death of Ivan Ilych written by Leo Tolstoy. Although Ivan lived a life in which he held a high reputation and made plenty money, I believe that Socrates would deem his life as an unexamined life because of his lack of self awareness and his rejection to death, causing Ivan to suffer in his final days of life.…
The other purpose of his defense is to educate and challenge Athenians. Socrates stated his philosophy throughout the Apology. He was a street philosopher. He had discussion with anyone, shared his thoughts for free. And he was doing so in his defense.…
Within these two pieces by Plato, an apparent contradiction is made through Socrates, in the Crito and in the Apology. Through both articles, the audience is able to determine that Socrates is a person with imagination derived from the contradictions presented, such as being wrongfully convicted, but reluctant to elude his unjust penance. In the Apology Socrates defends himself against a jury and why he should not have to obey the law and be allowed to continue practicing Philosophy. Crito is a conversation had between Socrates and Crito, in this story Plato leads the audience to believe that Socrates know thinks it is unjust to disobey the ruling.…
In Plato’s dialogue Apology, Socrates stands trail to defend himself from the accusations of “corrupting the youth” and disregarding the Gods of the state. In his speech he tells the jury that an oracle at Delphi told Chaerephon a friend of Socrates that Socrates is a man of wisdom and no man is wiser than he is. To prove this cannot be true Socrates conducts cross examinations to find someone who is wiser than he is. Through these examinations Socrates mission and main points are to help people by exposing their ignorance to find wisdom, to find virtue, to find truth and to improve the soul.…
Set during the socratic age of philosophy, The Apology by Plato chronicles the trial of Socrates on the charges of corruption of youth and not believing in the Gods. Plato, a young follower and apprentice of Socrates, documents the trial in its’ entirety from beginning to the unfortunate end in which Socrates is sentenced to death. The Apology is the trial of Socrates on a very basic and literal level but upon further inspection, one comes to realize that not only the philosopher is on trial but philosophy itself. Throughout the piece, Socrates attempts to convince the jury of philosophy’s worth and also criticize the condition of man. Furthermore, the recounting of the trial is also a protest of the hypocrisy within the Greek society that…
To corrupt or damage the young is one of the most punishable crimes, for the young are our future. The Apology, written by Plato, is about Socrates debating for his life against several charges one being corrupting the young. Socrates began questioning the men considered wise in Athens after the oracle Pythian said there were none wiser than Socrates, as he went along it was found that these wise men, were in fact, not wise at all (21-22). While Socrates questioned crowds grew and people began to follow him and listen to what he had to say, many young men of rich families followed him. Theses rich families were not fond of the questioning Socrates did, and less so with their sons following him (23b-c).…
What are the charges against Socrates as recorded in the Apology. Is he guilty of them? why or why not? In Plato’s Apology, there were several charges against Socrates during his trial.…
Murphy states that if there are problems in the world, the public will turn to political leaders for help. When those leaders require assistance they turn to the philosophers to aid in making moral decisions. After reading Plato’s Apology, and Euthyphro we are left with the question of what role should a philosophical attitude play in a life that is intelligently lived. The answer is that it is a key component, according to Plato and Murphy, in understanding how everything comes together proving how a philosophical attitude directly relates to an intelligent and morally lived life. Even though these three life styles are directly related I feel as though some explaining of them is necessary to understand why they are such an important role in our lives.…
Every human being has the ability to decide what they believe and what they do not. At a very early age, we develop judgement that allows us to choose whether or not to accept certain claims. These assertions may be tempting, but our reasoning allows us to critically analyze the information with respect to all of our previous knowledge. These claims may be faith based, fact-based, or opinion. Without recognizing it, we take every bit of information we gather, analyze it, and decide whether we accept its validity.…
Deductive logic attempts to create valid reasoning that will make it “impossible for the inferences based upon these reasons to be false” (Popkin and Stroll, 239).This means that if reasons are given and if these reasons are valid and are deemed to be true then the inferences made are conclusive. To better understand this, one may further dissect the two forms of an argument. Deductive reasoning is one of the most basic forms of valid reasoning. A deductive syllogism typically begins with a general statement that is the hypothesis. This hypothesis is used to examine the possibilities to reach a specific, logical conclusion.…
Socrates was a Greek philosopher; who life was recorded by his students such as Plato. He is one of the founders of philosophy and he is known for his “Socratic method”. Socrates had a curious mind and he always wondered things. He wanted to find how people should act. We can see this behavior in The Republic when he tries to find a definition for justice.…
‘The Apology’ written by Socrates most famous student Plato, is a Socrates dialogue where he is defending himself from the accusations of corrupting the youth and not believing in the gods of Athens. He tells the court that these accusations are false and he does believe in the gods of Athens. He also tells them that he did not corrupt the youth, in fact the youth followed him on their own free will. According to Socrates the problem was that people who called themselves wise were not actually very wise, their knowledge was based on ignorance thinking that they were wise and he wanted to help them see that true knowledge was knowing nothing rather than believing that they know everything. As philosophy is based on questioning everything,…