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Plato’s Apology presents Socrates delivering his sole public account of his life as a whole and what he lived for. But the account takes the form of a defense in a criminal trial that culminates in Socrates’ death sentence.
- Socrates on life and death (Plato, Apology 40C5–41C7)
While his defence in the Apology was already audacious,...
- Socrates on life and death (Plato, Apology 40C5–41C7)
The Apology, or Socrates' Defence, pretends to be the speech, or rather speeches, that Socrates gave at his trial on a charge of ‘doing what is unjust by corrupting the young and not believing in gods the city believes in but other new divine entities’ (Apology 24 b 8– c 1).
Mar 6, 2012 · While his defence in the Apology was already audacious, Socrates' closing speech appears even more provocative. Among other things, he declares that he has no reason to fear death, but that, on the contrary, the death penalty he received only moments before may well be considered a blessing.
- Alice Van Harten
- 2011
Can a real or ‘historical’ Socrates, with distinctive beliefs, be identified on the basis of the testimony roughly contemporaneous with his life which survives from Aristophanes, Plato, Xenophon, and (a generation later) Aristotle?
- Melissa Lane
- 2000
Jul 21, 2022 · This chapter addresses Plato’s conception of philosophy by examining how the Apology of Socrates represents Socrates as a model lover of wisdom.
May 3, 2011 · The quarrel between poetry and philosophy finds its first footing where most of Western philosophy originates, in the work of Plato, and it still reverberates from the assaults of Socrates on the poets when he exiled them from the Republic and claimed that the supreme music was no longer poetry but rather philosophy.
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Dec 15, 2020 · In his Apology, Plato portrays Socrates as a steadfast martyr, a man with noble wisdom, willing to cost his life for the pursuit of truth and virtue. In the first speech, based on which the jury would vote for his conviction or acquittal, Socrates started speaking in a unique way, and then insisted that he would stick to his life of philosophy ...
