It goes something like this: Socrates is guilty of wrongdoing in that he busies himself studying things in the sky and below the earth; he makes the worse into the stronger argument, and he teaches these …

Nov 3, 2008 · The Apology or Platonic defence of Socrates is divided into three parts: 1st. The defence properly so called; 2nd. The shorter address in mitigation of the penalty; 3rd. The last words of …

[SOCRATES] How helpful you were by answering reluctantly when compelled by these men! Now then, you say that I believe in and teach daimonia; so whether they are novel or ancient, at any rate I do …

Oct 4, 2020 · On the whole we arrive at the conclusion that the “Apology” is true to the character of Socrates, but we cannot show that any single sentence in it was actually spoken by him.

"Socrates is an evil-doer, and a curious person, who searches into things under the earth and in heaven, and he makes the worse appear the better cause; and he teaches the aforesaid doctrines to others."

ke up their deposition. It is pretty much as follows: "Socrates," it says, "acts unjustly in corrupting the youth, and in not believing in those gods in whom the city believes, but in ot er strange divinities." …

Socrates, on the other hand (though no doubt he loved a little STtiSei^iS, now and again), refused all payment for his teachings ; but, then, he was a real missionary in the intellectual and spiritual empires.

modern wit. For to fuch a one it will moft clearly appear from this very Apology, that Socrates was accufed of impiety for afferting that he was connected in a very tran-fcendant degree with a prefiding …

Socrates himself wrote nothing except some verses of poetry in his final days - of which nothing survives - and our best connection to Socrates comes from the works of Plato and, to a lesser degree, …

In the closing part of "The Apologia" Socrates is represented as commenting upon the sentence which has been passed upon him, and as expressing his belief that in going to his death he is only passing …