POL200Y5 Lecture Notes - Meletus
2 Nov 2011
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We always run out of time: what plato wants you to feel people that give us answers do not know what they are talking about. Trial accusing socrates in not believing in the official gods of athens and corrupting the young. What plato thinks of socrates the dialogue. Socrates" first time in court 2 charges. Formal: meletus o: old accusers: reputation of socrates. Plato sees socrates as a beginning of a new form of knowledge. Socrates trusts this voice he is not the only one in athens to experience this. Homer got nothing but time, will talk all day about the questions of life, for eternity if you are living the examined life, you will not presume to know things about the afterlife that you do not know. Crito if you live a good life, why should you fear the afterlife think about death properly and you will think about life properly.
