spectacular of the speeches on love comes from Socrates who pulls bits from the others’ dialogues and subtly incorporates them into his own to create the broad definition of love, encompassing both the love of wisdom and the love of various forms of beauty. His speech also serves as a defense in Plato’s Apology, where many concepts presented in the Symposium directly contend the charges laid against him on trial. Both works impressively present highly philosophical ideas in the form of enticing and engaging
The Apology is an account of the speech given by Socrates at his own trial in which he is being charged with not recognizing the gods that are officially recognized by the state of Athens, inventing new deities, as well as corrupting the youth. While the name of the piece is The Apology Socrates in his speech never apologizes for his actions. Instead the name of the speech comes from the Greek work “apologia” which translates to defense or a speech that is made in defense. Therefore Socrates attempts
for their ideas. There is a philosopher in particular who I want to talk about. I am talking about Socrates, Socrates was a Greek philosopher of Athens(469-399 B.C.) Socrates was considered the wisest man. In his old age Socrates start being more present in things happening in Athens. Socrates talked to young about what he believed, he make them more wise and teach them for the better. However there was some powerful people who was affected by this so Socrates was wanted dead. Socrates was not guilty
An Account of the Trial of Socrates as outlined in Plato’s Apology This essay is an interpretation of the accusations against Socrates during his trial. Socrates was a Greek philosopher born in 470 BCE. He believed that within philosophical thought was the value of human knowledge. He would rather die than live not being allowed to express his ideas of wisdom and improvement of the soul. In 431BCE, democratic Athens was the political and cultural centre of the period, the Spartans saw its development
fundamental contradiction that arises in the two dialogues by Socrates; Crito and Apology by Plato. In the Apology we get to meet the defiant Socrates who declares during his trial that he would not stop practicing philosophy in contradiction to the jury’s order if he was to be acquitted on condition never to practice philosophy ever again. Socrates claimed that he would choose to obey the gods as long as he was alive instead of obeying men. Here Socrates can be seen to present a defiant argument for disobedience
Socrates speech in the ‘Apology’ can be analyzed in different directions. The question of Socrates responsibility requires first the determination of the guilt by distinguishing official charges raised in the Court from moral issues which stayed untold by accusers but were obvious for everybody. From official side there were two indictments raised against Socrates. The first one is about his heterodoxy and lie: ‘Socrates does injustice and is meddlesome, by investigating the things under the earth
The personality of Socrates had an enormous influence on the philosophy of Plato and was depicted in his work Apology. The strength of the spirit, that Socrates demonstrated while implementing his ideas and unveiling the truth hidden behind people’s decorous behavior and hypocritical opinions, commanded Plato’s admiration and Socrates had remained the symbol of pure philosophy for him. The word apology means ‘speaking in defense’ and aimed at vindicating Socrates posthumously from calumnies (Reeve
Greek philosopher Socrates was put on trial and convicted. A jury of 100 men charged him with impiety and corrupting the youth. If this trial had occurred just 40 years earlier, Socrates could not have been convicted of any crime. In that 30-year span, there were many occurrences that made the democratic Athens be able to convict Socrates. The question of how Socrates could have been convicted is important because it helps us understand how Athens’ early democracy functioned. Socrates could be put to
both support and criticize Socrates' theories regarding death in The Apology. Although I agree with Socrates’ theory that death need not be feared because to fear death is a false wisdom, I disagree with Socrates’ implication that death is a blessing. First, I will back up Socrates' claim that because we do not know what happens when we die, there is no reason to fear it. After that, I will dispute Socrates' implications that death is a good thing. In The Apology, Socrates is being put on trial for
other’s opinions and evade from the reality. The Apology and the Allegory of the Cave which are both written by Plato show how and why people are so blinded from the true reality. These two literatures share the same idea of the truth which is that there is something else outside of the world that people ignore to see. “For I am in want, and he has enough; and he only gives you the appearance of happiness, and I give you the reality” (Plato 17). Socrates try to prove to people that their appearance