POLI 2P91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Radical Democracy, Anytus, Meletus
7 Nov 2015
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Ordinary athenian citizen (469-399 bce), and the first martyr of philosophy . Physically ugly but had a following of young men. The amnesty of 403, critias, and alcibiades (the democratic case against socrates) No one shall be punished for crimes committed under the 30. Socrates has two pupils critias and alcibiades. Alcibiades: general, does well but is tried and flees to sparta and shares. Socrates is teaching people to be spartan lovers. After new laws, can"t be tried for these two pupils. His trial is almost made up accusations in order to try him. In the apology and crito is more a document of how socrates acts (historical) Plato starts to add his own ideas into later writing of socrates. Today: democracy, free speech and civil disobedience (mlk on socrates) Courtroom drama (compare his defence with diodotus in peloponnesian war, helen in. 500 ordinary judges, no state prosecutor, suggest your own penalty.
