POL208Y1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Tyrant, Psychological Trauma, George Carlin
4 Apr 2014
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First of all, socrates is a real person, however, we must keep in mind that the version of socrates that has been presented to us by plato is plato"s socrates. Socrates was really sentenced to death by hemlock. Furthermore, he did have a real impact on the minds of the young in ancient athens. He did not discriminate between young and old, rich and poor, or genders. He was a great talker and master of discourse. The dramatic dialogue that plato gives to socrates is done on purpose and is structured in such a way to illuminate us regarding the many characters that socrates encounters. Socrates is the main character, or the protagonist of the dialogues. Plato is here to teach us something about the world that socrates and the one that he himself lived. Luckily, most of the works of plato has survived throughout the centuries.
