JLC-110 FA2 Quiz: WLT Exam 1 Study Guide
5 Oct 2016
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The informal charges against socrates are studying things in the sky and below the earth (18b), making the worse argument the stronger, and teaching this skill to others. The formal charges against socrates are corrupting the youth, not believing in the city"s gods, and introducing new gods. He introduces the early accusations because the new formal accusations were loosely based on them and the informal accusations are drawn from the character of socrates in. Aristophanes" the clouds rather than from the actual man. This makes the formal accusations seem unbased in reality. In the text, socrates distances himself from the character at the beginning of his argument and then goes on to contradict the rumors that he teaches people for a fee. Socrates does not undertake to directly disprove the formal charges against him but instead tries to find logical flaws in the meletus" arguments.
