PHIL-230 Lecture 11: phil 230 l11
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Socrates is the shift from natural philosophy to the centrality of moral inquiry: philosophy rooted in finding moral quality in everyday life and living well. The conventions of athens are opposed to the nature of value and moral endeavours: in conclusion, philosophy in some measure guilty of corruption and impiety. But to defend philosophy is not to show its not guilty (akin to socrates). It is merely more truly guilty of not fitting the nomos. To defend philosophy is to show convention as mistaken, not defend against the guilt. Finally if philosophy is thus guilty, its social status is deemed dangerous and precarious; philosophy is dangerous (think of how many students have followed socrates" thought). Socrates thus becomes the martyr the did not want him to become. Socrates must die for his points, because philosophy can"t be embraced by giving in to save ones human life. 1)it was a convention, of some sort, to write in dialogue.
