PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Socratic Method, Sophist, Meletus
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Socrates: the apology (lecture on the trial and death of socrates: why did philosophy start in greece, there were many impressive civilizations at the time, but they were mainly authoritarian governments. 6th-7th century b. c. , someone realized that there were other ways to form a government and civilization, rather than authoritarian: small states started popping up with these new forms of government. First ones seemed to sound like the heroic fables such that you would hear in odyssey and iliad. Sparta essentially made every man (every citizen) a part of the army. Athens created democracy: gave power to the citizens, people realized that you could make money and gain power. In some ways, take it more seriously than we do now by participating in the government: by sounding intelligent, being fluent and wise," you can climb the social ladder, therefore, sophists came to be. Taught people how to speak, how to argue, how to think.
