JLC-110 FA2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Meletus, Anytus, Retributive Justice
5 Oct 2016
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Early/informal: poets, craftspersons, politicians: studying sky+earth, makes the worse into the stronger argument, teaches this to others. New/formal: meletus, lycon, anytus: corrupting the young, not believing in the city"s gods, introducing new ones early/informal accusations translate into new/formal ones; early accusations are drawn from. Aristophanes" the clouds and can"t be used in court. Attacking socrates the character rather than socrates the man. He responds to the charge of corrupting the youth by asking who is fit to educate the youth if not him. Meletus responds that the jurymen are qualified and therefore all of. Socrates uses analogy of horses and horse trainer to challenge him (25b) If socrates was corrupting young men, wouldn"t their fathers and brothers be among those bringing charges against him (33d-34b) If he has corrupted the youth it was accidental and he should not be punished. What man would believe children of the gods to exist, but not gods? (27d)
