POLS 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Meletus, Anytus, Ventriloquism
13 Apr 2014
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Pols 2000 week 2 lecture september 12 2013. Socrates: 469 399 bc plato apology of socrates (public speech) (early dialogue) crito (private speech) (companion dialogue) The apology: apologia a simple defense speech, he is taken to trial in athens. Aristophanes is a poet who wrote the clouds . About a younger socrates he depicts socrates as an individual concerned about what is beneath the earth and aloft (as a scientist) and says that socrates teaches that the weaker argument is the stronger** **this is what the sophists taught (taught oratory skills to play words in a way to win and charged a fee for their teachings) Readers of the cloud learned about socrates because of the writing and grew up with a false understanding of socrates which would then be handed down generations. To say what is just is to say what is in keeping with the law.
