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The Apology of Sir Thomas More, Knight by Sir Thomas More Page and line numbers correspond to The Complete Works of St. Thomas More (Yale University Press), volume 9. A complete concordance to this work can be found at https://thomasmorestudies.org/concordance-home/#apology Spelling standardized, punctuation modernized, and glosses added
The Apology is not one of More's immortal achievements, but it has been insufficiently known. R. W. Chambers used it with effect to refute the nineteenth-century polemicists like Froude, but his under-standable efforts to rectify the balance in turn gave rise to a false tradi-tion, that of a "liberal-Catholic" More who could not have been the
The Apology Full Work Summary. Previous Next. Plato's The Apology is an account of the speech Socrates makes at the trial in which he is charged with not recognizing the gods recognized by the state, inventing new deities, and corrupting the youth of Athens.
Socrates, Roman mural 1 st century. The Apology. by Plato. I do not know, men of Athens, how my 17 accusers affected you; as for me, I was almost carried away in spite of myself, so persuasively did they speak. And yet, hardly anything of what they said is true.
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Jul 28, 2009 · Volume 9, The Apology. Edited by J. B. Trapp. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. xciii + 461 pp. $35.00. - Quincentennial Essays on St. Thomas More: Selected Papers from the Thomas More College Conference.
The Apology describes Socrates' state of mind at his trial and execution, and especially his view that it was better to die before senility set in than to escape execution by humbling himself be− fore an unjust persecution.
THE APOLOGY: THE BEGINNING OF PLATO'S OWN PHILOSOPHY. 1. Preliminary remarks. It has often been assumed that Plato's Apology is a faithful speech on the final day of his trial in 399 B.C.; that it contains Plato's own philosophy; and that it therefore represents rather. historical Socrates on how to live and how to philosophize. In this belief,
