GOVT-105 FA2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Irony, Meletus
21 Aug 2017
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Rhetorical dilemma: is it better to die for justice if your view would never be heard or stay alive to spread it. Seems to maximize his possibility of dying in second phase: could have punishments that only harm you like exile and ridicule. No where is thought less free than in the us (dogmatism) An attempt to fix his problem: control over who is he talking to but the problem arises when the youth start flocking to him. There"s the jury (people who probably won"t like you) but when you don"t know who your talking to you don"t know what your take should be. How is it framed? (court in apology: philosopher on one side and city on the other, opening words/opening scene. Old: heavens/earth (questioning religion), weaker speech the stronger: who: they, fathers. Plague and defeat was divine punishment: feared that this would happen again if socrates continued his actions, angering the gods.
