[GOVT-105 FA2] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 45 pages long Study Guide!
30 Mar 2017
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Govt- 105 lecture note #1 plato"s apology. Socratic irony: saying something that seems orthodox to appeal to different groups but is not/ using arguments that go over the heads of dogmatists. Socrates is not just a mouthpiece for plato; he says different things to different people depending on context. Question being addressed is usually subordinate to a larger question which is a part of the larger issue. In apology, categories of audience are athenians, the judges, accusers (meletus) First sentences of a dialogue are often important. Socrates distinguishes between persuasive speech and true speech. If lies are more persuasive than truth then that implies that people are more interested in having biases concerned than in the truth. Says that he is not a clever speaker but he"s probably lying. Unidentified they , fathers who are challenged by their sons. Naturalistic account of lightning/ the sun refutes the gods and is heresy. Two charges together are a charge of impiety.
