In The Apology by Plato, the accusations that was brought against Socrates during his trial, that he was worshipping new gods, corrupting the young. Even after providing services to the Athens he was being executed by the Athens for influencing young men not to join the Athens. 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 Socrates had influenced Plato to not to have a career in the political world as an Athens Socrates. Plato was a disciple of Socrates. The apology was an attempt to defend the character of Socrates by showing him in an honest and sympathetic. Plato wanted to preserve Socrates reputation, and to him as a great mentor.…
Euthyphro is a priest, a specialist in religious matters and claiming his highly science. His official role in the city is to examine the merits of the charges as those against Socrates. For a long time it was considered that this soothsayer embodied religious orthodoxy, popular traditional religious beliefs and Plato wanted to show that such a representative was unable to define piety, and thus prevent that Socrates was condemned for impiety. Socrates victim zealots of traditional religion. This thesis has been criticized in the early 20th century and has emerged a very different interpretation that reigned supreme for seventy years: Euthyphro would rather eccentric, fanatic distinguishing clearly the average religiosity of its citizens ...…
Plato’s Republic begins with a debate on the subject of morality. One by one, Cephalus, Polymarchus, and Thrasymachus put forth their definitions of morality and one by one, they come up short. None survive the merciless scrutiny of the author’s mentor, Socrates.…
While both men were waiting on the porch of the King Archon for their individual trials, Socrates and Euthyphro discuss the concept of holiness. The trials of these two men hold that of different merit, Socrates is being charged for corrupting the youth of Athens by sharing with them some of this ideals. While Euthyphro is going to trial not because he has done anything wrong but because he is accusing his father of murder for allowing a…
The Apology is one of the numerous recorded writings about Socrates. It talks about the trail of Socrates who is arrested on the charges corrupting the youth, not believing in the gods of the lord, and for being a Sophist. Socrates is not believed to have written any books; the apology was written by his student Plato who was at his trial. In this paper, I will discuss I will be talking about the charges laid against Socrates and how he defends himself.…
In the writing called Euthyphro by Plato, Socrates is being charged with corrupting the youth and not believing in all of the Gods. He is being accused of this by a man named Meletus who feels as though he is guilty of not believing in the Gods of the states. Not only does he not believe in the Gods but he is accused of making up new ones. The crimes that he is being charged with go hand in hand with each other but he maintains his innocence because he feels he isn’t guilty. While on the other hand Euthyphro is prosecuting his father and indicting him for murder. Morally Euthyphro feels as though it’s the right thing to do and his family doesn’t agree only because it’s his father. In this essay I will summarize the dialogue and its message relating to piety/holiness.…
For these two articles that we read in Crito and Apology by Plato, we could know Socrates is an enduring person with imagination, because he presents us with a mass of contradictions: Most eloquent men, yet he never wrote a word; ugliest yet most profoundly attractive; ignorant yet wise; wrongfully convicted, yet unwilling to avoid his unjust execution. Behind these conundrums is a contradiction less often explored: Socrates is at once the most Athenian, most local, citizenly, and patriotic of philosophers; and yet the most self-regarding of Athenians. Exploring that contradiction, between ¡§Socrates the loyal Athenian citizen¡¨ and ¡§Socrates the philosophical critic of Athenian society,¡¨ will help to position Plato¡¦s Socrates in an Athenian legal and historical context; it allows us to reunite Socrates the literary character and Athens the democratic city that tried and executed him. Moreover, those help us to understand Plato¡¦s presentation of the strange legal and ethical drama.…
The question of Socrates’ criminality is not straightforward. The truth or falsity of the accusations is not certain. Also, the perspective from which the question is viewed changes its answer. The only certainty is that the philosopher, Socrates, was found guilty and sentenced to death by a jury of his peers for corrupting the youth and a disbelief in the Athenian’s Gods. If the Apology’s origins are to be believed, as in if Plato wrote a true description of events, then it can be said that Socrates does not believe himself to be guilty of these crimes.…
[ 11 ]. Pomeroy, Sarah B. "The Trial of Socrates(399 B.C.)." Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. 360-64. Print.…
"...this is what you are, this is all you've ever been. A toy for me to use whenever and however I see fit."…
What is passed down as history – in addition to formative cultural practices – is the cornerstone for all political and socioeconomic structure in society, both past and present. This relationship between the structure of a state and the substance of its people’s beliefs is evident across both traditions and time. Beginning with an open view of human functioning lends itself to be most constructive while investigating this relationship, which is viewing humans as more introspective beings looking for an explanation of human nature. Woven across the cultures studied this semester the theme of a more stable society existing at a time when that society’s institutions reflect individual’s higher levels of developed thinking, can be identified.…
Cited: Plato, G. M. A. Grube, and John M. Cooper. The Trial and Death of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Death Scene from Phaedo. Third Edition ed. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Pub., 2000. 20-42. Print.…
In Plato’s Trial and Death of Socrates, the value of piety and justice is emphasized repeatedly. To Socrates, it is never valid to knowingly commit an unjust action, as it does more harm than good. In other words, the most important thing in life is a good life that maintains the health of the body and psyche. Therefore, after failing to be acquitted from his trial, he must now determine whether it is just or unjust to escape without the approval of fellow Athenians. In his examination of possible liberation, Socrates rationalizes with Crito as to why he believes escaping does no justice for his psyche, or the city. He eventually personifies the law of Athens, talking in the voice of the law, to reason with Crito, and with himself, as to why…
In this essay, I explicate connections between Socrates’ descriptions of himself and his role as a citizen and educator in his home city, Athens, as portrayed in Plato’s Apology. The Apology depicts the trial of Socrates, and its entirety is narrated from the point of view of Socrates. Therefore, in the account of this trial, we have a lens through which we can view Socrates’ ideologies and convictions. Additionally, because Socrates is speaking directly to a jury of five hundred and one Athenians, from this dialogue we can interpret how Socrates saw his life and purpose in relation to Athens and her people through his direct interaction with them.…
The current democratic method of organisation of the “polis” was not suitable for Plato as he considered ruling far too vital a role in society to be left to the untrained. Instead, it should be left to those who have the knowledge and more crucially, the wisdom required to comprehend such a task. It is, however, at this point, we should consider that a significant factor in Plato’s opposition to democracy was that the Athenian democracy had condemned Socrates to death.…