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People Like Plato Youth Of Athens Socrates
1,298 words... arctic, he drew forth information from his students by pursuing a series of questions and examining their answers. Socrates integrity with the knowledge of one's true self, holding that no one knowingly does wrong (Hooker. 1996). Socrates beliefs can not be studied firsthand because Socrates did not keep any written record of his thoughts. Socrates wrote nothing because he felt that knowledge was a living, interactive thing (Hooker, 1996). We do know that Plato copied from Socrates the metho...
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Youth Of Athens Young Men
967 wordsAt the age of seventy Socrates was before five hundred Athenians in the court of law. Over his seventy years this was his first appearance in court. However, Socrates had allegations against him earlier in his life of being a Sophist. According to The Concise Oxford Dictionary, Sophist is defined as; a paid teacher of the Ancient-Greek philosophy and rhetoric (public speaking); meaning a human being who interrogates others tending to discover imperfection and formulate insignificant and extreme ...
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Youth Of Athens Court Of Law
1,669 wordsPlato's Apology In The Apology Socrates makes a speech in defense of himself. During the course of that speech he presents himself to the men of the jury in two different ways. In the beginning of the speech he presents himself humbly. As the speech goes on he begins to show himself as more and more important. This sense of importance is who he really is. He perceives himself to be an important man. His students also perceive him to be important, otherwise why would one of his students have even...
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Youth Of Athens Corrupting The Youth
1,876 wordsSocrates At the elderly age of seventy, Socrates found himself fighting against an indictment of impiety. He was unsuccessful at trial in the year 399 B. C. The charges were corrupting the youth of Athens, not believing in the traditional gods in whom the city believed, and finally, that he believed in other new divinities. In Plato's Apology, Socrates defends himself against these charges. He claims that the jurors opinions are biased because they had probably all seen Aristophanes comedy The C...
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Youth Of Athens Corrupting The Youth
1,267 wordsAt the elderly age of seventy, Socrates found himself fighting against an indictment of impiety. He was unsuccessful at trial in the year 399 B. C. The charges were corrupting the youth of Athens, not believing in the traditional gods in whom the city believed, and finally, that he believed in other new divinities. In Plato? s Apology, Socrates defends himself against these charges. He claims that the jurors? opinions are biased because they had probably all seen Aristophanes? comedy The Clouds....
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Put To Death Youth Of Athens
388 wordsThe Trial of Socrates Socrates is certainly not guilty of the crimes he is accused of. He is not corrupting the youth of Athens and he does indeed believe in gods. His manner is uncommon and because of that he is feared by his accusers (Meletus, Anytus, Lycos, et al. ). Justice will be miscarried if he is put to death. Meletus has brought before the court the accusation that Socrates does not believe in the gods of Greece, but at the same time claims that he is a believer of other divinities. Th...
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