PHIL 1000H Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Horse Training
8 Oct 2016
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Socrates was tried with: impiety, and, corrupting the youth. Impiety: religion was not a private matter; it is public because your duty as a citizen is to please the gods; piety is a civic duty. Corrupting the youth: putting strange ideas into peoples" heads and making them turn against authority (their parents) is wrong. Trials by jury (500 men) were done in one day; no longer. Begins with socrates saying what he is going to do: distinguish two sets of accusers; old and new. He said all four of these accusations were false. He had a friend, chaerephon, who went to delphi to ask the oracle if any man was wiser than socrates (not intelligence, but wisdom) The oracle said that no was is wiser than socrates. The oracle tells the truth, but the answers cannot be taken at face value. He disgraced these people, which made himself unpopular, but he did not care because this was his religious duty.
