POLS 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Meletus, His People, Anytus

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Socrates concluded that what the oracle meant is that human wisdom is worthless, and at least he, socrates, understood that. By exposing the pretensions of those who believed themselves wise, socrates was doing service for the oracle. You destroy the laws if the individual is choosing which laws to follow (who gives you the right to decide) and the rule of law: socrates stands to the city and its laws as a slave to its master and as a child to its parent therefore socrates or the individual must submit to the laws, and do whatever the city asks of you or else persuade it what the just is by nature, socrates has made an agreement with the laws and thus he must stay and meet his. Education: formation of character, means to an end good character, severe censorship. Impressionable youth should not be exposed to immoral stories of the gods (zeus)

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