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- the Apology seems perfectly willing to disobey a court order that would prevent him from practicing philosophy in Athens (Apology 29d).
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Feb 20, 2023 · In Plato's Apology Socrates clearly indicates he would continue to philosophize even if the court ordered him not to: if now, when, as I conceive and imagine, God orders me to fulfil the philosoph...
- 1 Demaratus’ Law and Socrates’ Truth
- 2 A Socratic Axiom: ‘No Man Will Save His Life…’
- 3 Socrates’ Past: Law-Breaking in A Democratic City
- 4 Socrates’ Past: Law-Breaking in A Despotic City
- 5 Socrates’ Future: ‘There Is No Man to Whom I Would Yield’
There is no reference to Herodotus in Plato’s dialogues,Footnote 17 and in the Apology—unlike the Crito, Republic and Laws—there is no reference to the Spartan laws. Yet when Socrates appeals in the Apology to his fortitude in a series of Athenian mobilizations against Spartan satellite cities,Footnote 18in the course of the Peloponnesian War, he p...
With this said, the ‘truth’ of Socrates and the duplicity which it institutes as a free man’s relation to his city’s laws should perhaps be restated. Socrates himself restates it, before he moves into the terrain of points (ii) and (iii) in the above list. In Apology 29, Socrates says that, while ‘no man knows death’,Footnote 46 yet ‘I do know that...
There is no romanticism of the ‘sovereign dêmos’ in Plato,Footnote 61 and both Socrates and the Socratic circle were charged with ‘hatred of the masses’ (misodêmia).Footnote 62 At Apology 32, Socrates refuses to flatter the democratic law-court of Athens. Rather, he reminds the bench of 500 or 501 citizen-judgesFootnote 63 of a highly charged trial...
Socrates’ highest ideal, when stated negatively, is this: ‘to do nothing unjust or unholy’.Footnote 79 When he defies the democratic law-court in 406 bce because its decision is ‘unjust’, this cannot be reduced to his aristocratic sympathies. For in the year 404, as he then recounts,Footnote 80 Socrates also defies a brutal, short-lived oligarchy—‘...
As Socrates’ past testifies, his highest ideal is not positive law. He is not a mere subject of the Athenian law-state in its concrete operation. The Athenian law-state is not Socrates’ despot. Socrates says in his own defence, before the Athenian law-court, that the ideal of justice renders inevitable his insubordination to political officeholders...
- David Lloyd Dusenbury
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Apology of Socrates, Plato presents the judicial proceedings that led to Socrates' execution as having precisely the opposite significance to their superficial legal meaning.
But in any case, some of the words used by him must have been remembered, and some of the facts recorded must have actually occurred. It is significant that Plato is said to have been present at the defence (Apol. 38 B), as he is also said to have been absent at the last scene in the Phaedo (59 B).
Dec 15, 2020 · As Plato had a wide and far-reaching influence on the history of thought, and later scholars who studied Socrates’ trial were basically philosophers and thinkers, Xenophon’s record of Socrates’ death has been dismissed as a misunderstanding and defacement of Socrates.
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. This Socrates loves expertise about how to live well, and he does so in three ways: (i) by examining others to test them for this expertise and to confirm that only the gods possess it, (ii) by ...
