PHIL 1F90 Lecture Notes - Arun Shourie, Action Figure, Sophist
19 Nov 2013
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Rhetoric (someone who has a way with words, therefore able to make compelling speeches) Socrates, the action figure (socrates will say nothing in court except the truth, as he did in the marketplace) Always seeking to engage others in his philosophical conversations. Worshipping false gods (not the gods of athens, or none at all) Some implicit and unspoken charges against him, constitute the real genuine reason for his appearance in front of the court, these will be the most difficult charges for him to refute. Difficult to counter these charges at all, these are nothing but prejudice that are directed against socrates and passed along by gossip. The people now believe things about socrates, however are a complete mistake/misunderstanding. Aristophanes (445-380 bce): fallen deep into debt due to his sons gambling, enrols himself in socrates thinking shop so that he can learn how to confute and to confound his creditors with logic.
