PHIL 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Heterodoxy, Meletus, Moral Authority
5 May 2018
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-Thales: Student of Anaximander
"Everything is made of water"
Why?
Water is important. We need it to survive (vital to life).
-Arete means excellence
-What does Plato want to do with his life?
-Plato is an aristocrat. Aristocrats make important decisions.
-Plato wants to be a great leader of Athens or a poet
-Socrates is poor and non elite
-Socrates refuses to get into politics because people like him who do die.
- laless ad uighteous deeds hih ae doe i a state, ill sae his life.
-Assembly takes all time and wrong decisions. (Morally)
-Democratic theory ----> Assembly is not wrong
-Regardless, assembly decides whether right or wrong.
-Socrates says there is a way to determine between right and wrong beyond what
the assembly do.
-APOLOGY
-399 BC: The trial of Socrates
-Socrates calls the jury
-Socrates calls the jury "Andres dikastai" (This is an insult to the jury. Andres dikastai means people
of Athens aka Athenians. Athenians also means accident of birth He refuses to call them jury
eause he does’t thik the ae ualified to judge hi. He is uestioig thei oal authoit
-Meletus is the filth lae ausig ioet “oates hat Plato thiks
-“oates is aused of heteodo. Ae ou ausig e of heteodo o ae ou allig e a
atheist “oates is aused of ouptig the outh ad fo ot elieig hat ou pees
believe.
-The trial is based on his whole life (Apologia pzo sud vita = apology on his whole life)
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