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Jun

2010

Introductions of Benjamin Jowett to Plato's Dialogues Concerning the Last Days of Socrates

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More suspicious is the statement that Socrates received the first impulse to his favourite calling of cross-examining the world from the Oracle of Delphi; for he must already have been famous before Chaerephon went to consult the Oracle (Riddell)
the enemy of rhetoric
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- public opinion
- professed accusers
- identified with the teachers of physical science and with the Sophists. But this was an error
- Chaerephon
- gone to Delphi and asked the oracle if there was any man wiser than Socrates; and the answer was, that there was no man wiser.
- poets
- craftsmen
- politicians
- absorbed him and taken him away both from public and private affairs.
- he must remain at his post where the god has placed him
- he will certainly obey
  God rather than man
- he is their heaven-sent friend
- he is the gadfly who stirs the generous steed into motion

Apology (Xenophon) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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better to die before senility set in than to escape execution by humbling himself before an unjust persecution
the Oracle at Delphi claimed no one was "more free, more just, or more sound of mind" than Socrates (Apology 14), while in Plato's text the claim was only that no one was "wiser" (Apology 21a)
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- "divine sign" (daimonion)

The Trial of Socrates

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Aristophanes’ comedy Clouds, produced in 423 BCE, portrays Socrates as an asinine sophist.
disagreement between older men and younger men
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- Socrates, along with the sophists, was blamed in part for instilling the younger generation with what the older generation perceived as a morally nihilistic, disrespectful attitude.
- Critias, who appears in two of Plato's Socratic dialogues, was a leader of the Thirty Tyrants (the ruthless oligarchic regime that ruled Athens for eight months in 404-403 BCE), but there is also a record of their falling out.
- Waterfield asserts that “Socrates would have been welcome in oligarchic Thebes, where he had close associates among the Pythagoreans who flourished there, and which had already taken in other exiles.”
- Waterfield suggests, Socrates’ contemporaries probably thought his remaining in Athens, even without participating in the Thirty’s bloodthirsty schemes, demonstrated his sympathy for the Thirty’s cause, not neutrality towards it.
- Socrates did oppose the will of the Thirty on a few specific occasions
- Some contempt for Socrates may have stemmed from his relationship with Alcibiades
- Socrates himself seems to have openly espoused certain anti-democratic views, most prominent perhaps being the view that it is not majority opinion that yields correct policy but rather genuine knowledge and professional competence, which is possessed by only a few.

Jul

2008

“All I know is that I know nothing.”

"In this week’s eSkeptic, Priscilla Sakezles discusses the famous words most often attributed to Socrates, “All I know is that I know nothing.” claiming that it is indeed a misquote." Skeptic: eSkeptic: Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

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