Plato's apology of socrates audio6/11/2023 ![]() Moreover, during the trial, in his speech of self-defence, Socrates twice mentions that Plato is present at the trial (34a and 38b). ![]() ![]() Įxcept for Socrates's two dialogues with Meletus, about the nature and logic of his accusations of impiety, the text of the Apology of Socrates is in the first-person perspective and voice of the philosopher Socrates (24d–25d and 26b–27d). Aristotle believed the dialogue, particularly the scene where Socrates questions Meletus, represented a good use of interrogation. Although Aristotle later classified it as a genre of fiction, it is still a useful historical source about Socrates (469–399 BC) the philosopher. As such, Plato's Apology of Socrates is an early philosophic defence of Socrates, presented in the form of a Socratic dialogue. ![]() The Apology of Socrates, by the philosopher Plato (429–347 BC), was one of many explanatory apologia about Socrates's legal defense against accusations of corruption and impiety most apologia were published in the decade after the Trial of Socrates (399 BC). Marble, Roman artwork (1st century), possibly a copy of a lost bronze statue by Lysippos. Plato from Raphael's The School of Athens (1509–1511)īust of Socrates. ![]()
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