PHIL 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Meletus

• School: Brock University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1F90
• Professor: Richard Brown

Document Summary

Sophist taught their students how to be vitreous. Socrates calls on the oracle of apollo at delphi. Socrates is the wisest of men the oricle must be telling the truth, can not tell a lie. Socrates says he"s not wise at all. Socrates knows that he does not know whereas the other think they know when they don"t. He said it was his god given duty. Either socrates is not a bad influence or . No mortal human being poses such knowledge - socrates knows he doesn"t know. Prevents socrates from doing anything that would be unjust or holy. Openly condemn the court of the process of his very own trial.