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PHILOSOPHY ON SOCRATES
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Plato's Apology contains Socrates's account speech on his statement to the court during
his trial moments when he faced accusations and charges against failure to recognize gods
prestigious to the state. Socrates faced allegations on account of influencing the youths of
Athens. He was dialoguing but not making a genuine apology, and he was making a defensive
speech. In the literal meaning, Socrates was defending himself but not apologizing in any way
(Rueda, 2017). Socrates was talking with pride, and he showed disrespect to the juries by telling
his accuser that he should not get along with those who have deceived him.

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Generally, from his first statement, Socrates talked with confidence, and he believed he
was telling the truth and everybody ought to listen to him. He was 70 years old when he stood
behind bars claiming it was his first time to step into the court of law referring to it as a strange
place. He accepted to be having many accusers over a long period, but he did not fear them
except he fears the danger linked with Anytus and his associates.
Meletus said many accusations about Socrates, describing him as an evil man looking for
things everywhere under the earth and heaven. Meletus further accused Socrates of teaching
misleading concepts to the youths and the Athenians. About the negative talk by Meletus, he
defended himself to be clean of the accusation urging them to listen carefully and later confirm
with their colleagues or neighbors; therefore, they should make rational judgment.
The statement given by Socrates about Meletus indicates something far from the
"Apology of the Elenchus" or cross-examination, which was to be the central part of the Platonic
dialogue. His statement was in the form of showing embarrassment to Meletus (Rueda, 2017). In
his report on the famous account, he showed self- upraise by describing himself as "a gadfy
stinging the lazy horse." The implication is that he was giving the Athenian state hard time to
reawaken their thought to become once again productive.
In general, Apology's concept that he was giving, but in defending himself, Socrates
explains that he developed his behavior from the prophecy by the oracle at Delphi, which
proclaimed that he had more wisdom than all men. He claimed that he is wiser than all men, but
only that "he knows that he knows nothing." He further argued that he found it necessary to
challenge those men who claim to be wise and to tell the world that their wisdom is false and
equivalent to ignorance.

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1 PHILOSOPHY ON SOCRATES Name Institution Affiliation Course Code Instructor Date Philosophy of Socrates Plato's Apology contains Socrates's account speech on his statement to the court during his trial moments when he faced accusations and charges against failure to recognize gods prestigious to the state. Socrates faced allegations on account of influencing the youths of Athens. He was dialoguing but not making a genuine apology, and he was making a defensive speech. In the literal meaning, Socrates was defending himself but not apologizing in any way (Rueda, 2017). Socrates was talking with pride, and he showed disrespect to the juries by telling his accuser that he should not get along with those who have deceived him. 2 Generally, from his first statement, Socrates talked with confidence, and he believed he was telling the truth and everybody ought to listen to him. He was 70 years old when he stood behind bars claiming it was his first time to step into the court of law referring to it as a strange place. He accepted to be having many accusers over a long period, but he did not fear them except he fears the danger linked with Anytus and his associates. Meletus said many accusations about Socrates, describing him as an evil man looking for things everywhere under the earth and heaven. Meletus further accused Socrates of teaching misleading concepts to the youths and the Athenians. About the negative talk by Meletus, he defended himself to be clean of the accusation ...
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