Plato’s Five Dialogue is consist of five sections, all centered around Socrates’s life, before his death. In Apology, Socrates is in a trial, due to being accused of three things: corrupting the youth, not believing in the gods of the city, and believing in supernatural things. At the end of his trial, he is sentenced to death. In Phaedo, we learned that Socrates does not die right after his trial ended but was in prison for a couple of months. Right, before his death he has a talk with many of his
highlight this idea that knowledge is indeed power which will be used in support of this argument, and these three are: Plato’s “The Apology”, The Bible’s “Genesis”, and St. Augustine’s “Confessions”. The first passage in which knowledge is an example of power is Plato’s “The Apology”. The whole reason for the actual trial of Socrates is that he was thought by his accusers to be: “…guilty of wrongdoing in that he busies himself studying things in the sky and below the Earth; he makes the worse into the