Plato: The Apology of Socrates pt.1

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1656/1656-h/1656-h.htm

I'm gonna read out the whole apology.... just cause that part of socrates' character and attitudes suits mine so well...

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• Socrates
• Apology
• megalomania
• court
• Plato
• men
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• Athens
• Sokrates
• Socrate

[NearVSMello]

The last the the democracy of Athens needed at the time was an underminer. They were just recovering from the very war that Socrates had fought in and the status quo was very tenuous.

[Jackies1979]

@NearVSMello yes, KILL SOCRATES!

[rsgrcg]

RY: Here's one sentence I don't get-"And they are many, and their charges against me are of ancient date, and they were made by them in the days when you were more impressible than you are now-in childhood, or it may have been in youth- and the cause when hear went by default, for there was none to answer."

[Jackies1979]

The accusers who have been accusing Socrates (of speculationg about the heaven etc.) are numerous, they have been accusing him for a long time already (they are of "ancient date"), they made the charges when the people of Athens were easy to convince/dependent on the views of their parents (i.e. when they were children/youths)... and the cause (meaning the argument in court) has no real opponent... the accuser is not there (Socrates fights with a shadow opponent)...

[tropicalmist999]

excellent: Can you post the link where you are reading this: as there are many other versions out there with sligtly different wording- nontheless the ideas remain the same but at the same time it is nice to follow your voice word for word.

[Jackies1979]

i think it was there --> see box

but isn't there only one jowett translation version around?

[Luciankat]

Thank you so much for doin this... grateful :)

[MethodsofHavoc]

Well spoken, man.

[MaxLinc5555]

Did you translate this from the Greek or are you reading someone else's translation?

[djbex77]

Thank you for making up this video. Currently I need to write a paper on the Apology for my Philosophy 102 class, so this, so far is helping me with the accompanying notes to help better understand what is taking place and being said.

[tropicalmist999]

oh thanks!