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Summary. Analysis. Socrates begins his apologia by calling the jury “men of Athens,” wondering aloud how his accusers have “affected” them. “As for me,” he says, “I was almost carried away in spite of myself, so persuasively did they speak. And yet, hardly anything of what they said is true.”.
Full Work Analysis. The Apology is one of those rare works that gracefully bridges the divide between philosophy and literature. The work is less concerned with asserting any particular philosophical doctrines than it is with creating a portrait of the ideal philosopher. On trial, with his life at stake, Socrates maintains his cool and ...
Full Work Summary. 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' speech, however, is by no means an "apology" in our modern understanding of the word.
Rhetoric, Persuasion, and the Truth. LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Apology, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. Although Socrates is quite convincing in his apologia, he insists that he is not using rhetorical trickery to deceive the jury. Rather, he simply follows each accusation to its logical ...
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In the Apology, Plato has provided posterity with one of the most memorable portraits of his teacher Socrates. In Platos view, Socrates was a paragon of virtue. Perhaps the essence of his virtue can be summarized in a single wordintegrity. Socrates dedication to the truth was so total and so unswerving that the very thought of compromising that tru...
One of the things that makes the Apology so effective a piece of literature is the fact that it is, at bottom, the account of a trial. By their very nature, trials tend to be dramatic and interesting affairs, especially when, as was the case with Socrates, the stakes are high. Yet what gives this particular trialsurely one of the most famous in the...
In the spring of 399 b.c.e., when Plato would have been in his late twenties, Socrates was accused by Meletus, Anytus, and Lycon of two criminal offenses: corrupting the youth of Athens and adopting an atheistic attitude toward the gods of the city. The trial was held before a large assemblage of people, very likely numbering in the thousands, but ...
Analysis: “Apology”. The key questions at the heart of Apology are why Socrates’s accusers put him on trial and, by extension, why the jury voted to condemn him to death. The official charges brought against Socrates were impiety and corrupting the youth. Given that these are both very subjective accusations, it is important to place them ...
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Summary: “Apology”. Apology, also known as The Apology of Socrates, is a philosophical dialogue written by the Greek philosopher Plato chronicling the trial of his mentor Socrates in 399 BCE. After finding Socrates guilty of impiety and corrupting the youth, the Athenian jury sentenced him to death. Socrates carried out his own execution by ...
