PHIL 200 Lecture : Plato and Socrates
22 Apr 2012
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Plato"s mentor was socrates dialogues constantly about socrates. We will make no distinctions between their two philosophies. Socrates was put to death by the athenians in 399 bc. Dialogue the apology died by drinking the hemlock (poison). For corruption of the youth and following strange religious practices. Asked delphic oracle who the wisest man in. S believed there were more wiser, spent his life trying to prove the oracle wrong, by questioning people in the streets. Realized that many people who he spoke to had a very good idea on certain things. The youth enjoyed seeing their elders discomforted by socrate"s dialectic. He was tried in a court (trial in an open court with an audience of 500 people, result came from voting at the end). Everyday his friends would come to prison cell to talk to him great privilege.
