Trial And Death Of Socrates Analysis
The Trial and Death of Socrates
The book The Trial and Death of Socrates is all about the famous philosopher Socrates, dealing with the challenges and disputes he encountered. Its told by another famous philosopher Platos’ perspective, who was a pupil of Socrates. The book focuses on 4 main dialogues Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo. While demonstrating themes of wisdom, existence, and death.
First dialogue of this book is Euthyphro, which contains the characters Socrates, Euthyphro, and Meletus. Inside this dialogue Socrates is being tried in court by Meletus who we don’t actually meet, but just hear his name frequently. While in Athens, Socrates meets Euthyphro, who is bringing his father to court for a murder, and the two begin to talk. Socrates starts to ask Euthyphro about religiousness and holiness to try and possibly help him in his upcoming court case. After hearing some definitions of holiness from Euthyphro, Socrates begin to question him on these theories. Euthyphro’s greatest attempt to explain holiness was, “whatever is holy is approved by all gods.” This led to lots of questioning by Socrates and into an elaborate argument about gods and holiness. After the argument continues and …show more content…
As they discuss the idea of a possible escape we learn that Socrates isn’t necessarily fond of the idea. Crito starts to tell him about his family who will left behind and all his followers who will be disappointed. This is when we learn that Socrates doesn’t exactly want to break out, his reasoning is the just laws of Athens. He explains that the laws of Athens are an entity, so if you break one you break them all, and Socrates doesn’t want to break the city rule of Athens, a city he has happily lived in for 70 years. Plato the author faces difficulty in this chapter trying to reason why Socrates shouldn’t escape the cell, which is very hard to
The book The Trial and Death of Socrates is all about the famous philosopher Socrates, dealing with the challenges and disputes he encountered. Its told by another famous philosopher Platos’ perspective, who was a pupil of Socrates. The book focuses on 4 main dialogues Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo. While demonstrating themes of wisdom, existence, and death.
First dialogue of this book is Euthyphro, which contains the characters Socrates, Euthyphro, and Meletus. Inside this dialogue Socrates is being tried in court by Meletus who we don’t actually meet, but just hear his name frequently. While in Athens, Socrates meets Euthyphro, who is bringing his father to court for a murder, and the two begin to talk. Socrates starts to ask Euthyphro about religiousness and holiness to try and possibly help him in his upcoming court case. After hearing some definitions of holiness from Euthyphro, Socrates begin to question him on these theories. Euthyphro’s greatest attempt to explain holiness was, “whatever is holy is approved by all gods.” This led to lots of questioning by Socrates and into an elaborate argument about gods and holiness. After the argument continues and …show more content…
As they discuss the idea of a possible escape we learn that Socrates isn’t necessarily fond of the idea. Crito starts to tell him about his family who will left behind and all his followers who will be disappointed. This is when we learn that Socrates doesn’t exactly want to break out, his reasoning is the just laws of Athens. He explains that the laws of Athens are an entity, so if you break one you break them all, and Socrates doesn’t want to break the city rule of Athens, a city he has happily lived in for 70 years. Plato the author faces difficulty in this chapter trying to reason why Socrates shouldn’t escape the cell, which is very hard to