The Sentencing of Socrates

Socrates pleads his case in his sentencing hearing and talks about the true value of the individual agitator and rebel in society.
This scene stars Bob Weick as Socrates in the Iron Age Theatre production of Steve Hatzai's waiting for the Ship from Delos at the Philadelphia Fringe.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Socrates
• delos
• hatzai
• plato
• apology
• philosophy
• theatre

[ironagetheatre]

Socrates was a belligerent figure. most solid historical evidence shows that he was a pushy aggressive individual. It us why he ws so hammered by the "law." He is also a human. Good work on the apology. Calm does not equal rational.

[HaleysHeresat]

Socrates... strikes me as a calm person, because he is a philosopher that is really laid back. When I read this, I pictured him speaking, not yelling.. that's just me though I mean, it's not like I was alive in 299BC.

[GueorguiJoukov]

Plato did not used such an arrogant and frustrated tone. Socrates was rather ironical and sarcastic by times and he was more the kind to play the silent and the simple than yell - he perceived those manners as part of the rhetoric and Plato rarely depicts his master angry.

[Kinin4]

@thatwillbe50bucks

Obviously not, because many atheists fully admit that Jesus existed.

Atheism is a position (or lack thereof) on the existence of God, not the existence of Jesus. Only if Jesus was demonstrated to be God could he be an issue for atheism.

[thatwillbe50bucks]

@Kinin4 If Jesus had existed, and there was proof, then people would not need atheism. It is because people don't know if he existed that atheism exists.

[Kinin4]

@thatwillbe50bucks

I'll grant you the first part, as I am not learned on the subject.

However, I disagree with the latter; even if Jesus existed, nothing about that would invalidate unbelief/disbelief in his (supposed) claims.

[thatwillbe50bucks]

@Kinin4 Jesus has not been confirmed as a real figure. If he had, there would be no need for atheism

[thatwillbe50bucks]

He was a philosopher.

[mikelheron20]

This flies in the face of every account I have ever read about Socrates' demeanour.

[MrCropper]

I certainly pictured him speaking softly and calmly. So soft, in fact, that I wondered how he could have been heard speaking his recorded words. This strenuous delivery is not how I would have directed the scene.

[whiteowl1415]

@HaleysHeresat

I normaly think him that way as well, but must bear in mind the Story of the man he almost drowned the told he would teach him when he wanted knowledge more then he wanted the air, and also that Socrates was a veteran of the Peloponesian war, and thus a soldier at one point for Athens agains Sparta

these indicate he had to have a rough side as well

[1awareness]

my childhood hero

[Camino1]

@ironagetheatre Socrates was belligerent but belligerence should not be a capital crime.