POLI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Dionysia, Socratic Method, Ion
11 Oct 2016
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Believes in the system and believes jury has the right to make their decisions and that they"re right in doing so. He knows that disobeying the law is unjust. He would rather die than live knowing he did something unjust. Yes, because he chose to be just and die even when the law was unjust and when he had the opportunity to escape. Yes, maybe his death was his nal lesson. Motivates xenophon and plato to write about him. His death sparks more discussion and opens more eyes than when he was alice. Being killed by his state maybe makes him a powerful leader. Perhaps he could"ve taught more people and spread more ideas irony: elenchus failed and he never found the truth. Perhaps it was only mellitus and the jury that killed socrates, not entirely athens. In terms of social context, the execution of socrates is justi ed.
