PHI 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Meletus, Anytus, Sophist
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Apology refers not to our modern definition of the word, but rather to the greek term related to apologetics : it means a defense for something, socrates is not apologizing for anything in this. Just like plato"s euthyphro, this is not a transcription of socrates" words: rather, this is more of a dramatic or literary presentation of socrates and the things he might say or rhetoric he might use. This also is not a dialogue like euthyphro: there is only a short dialogue with one of socrates" accusers, meletus. Apology occurs during socrates" trial, of which he received several charges, both formal and informal: formal charges. Socrates does not believe in the gods of athens (the olympian gods), but rather believes in new spiritual things : informal charges. Socrates studies things in the sky and below the earth. Socrates makes the worse argument the stronger.
