PHIL1301 Chapter 3 - Plato's Apology

After the verdict, both the prosecution and the defense proposed punishments. Socrates' proposal was death by drinking hemlock poison.

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In the last of his three speeches, Socrates states that death is terrible and must be postponed at all costs.

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Plato's Apology tells the story of how sorry Socrates was for having upset his fellow Athenians with his persistent questioning.

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Socrates believed good people are often harmed by immoral folk who take advantage of them.

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The Delphic oracle said that Socrates was as wise as the gods.

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As a result of his questioning of politicians, poets, and craftsmen, Socrates concluded that his own wisdom consisted in realizing that he was ignorant.

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Socrates believes that the "unexamined life is not worth living" because this is the only way to care for your soul.

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Socrates likens himself to a gadfly. Just as a gadfly constantly agitates a horse, preventing it from becoming sluggish and going to sleep, so too Socrates, by stirring up conversations in the marketplace, prevents the city from becoming sluggish, careless, and intolerant (thinking it knows something when it doesn't).

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The five charges leveled against Socrates are: Corrupting the youth Not believing in the gods of the city (impiety) Making the weaker speech the stronger Studying natural science Bringing in strange new gods

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When Socrates says to Meletus: "if I believe in divine activities I must quite inevitably believe in divine beings", Socrates tries to show that Meletus' accusation of atheism is inconsistent with his other accusations.

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