youth by teaching his incorrect version of philosophy and creating new gods. It is for this reason that he is being wrongly accused and put on trial. Socrates positions in the Apology and the Crito‚ in regards to following the law‚ appear to be contradictory to each other but in fact they are consistent in most ways. In the Apology‚ Socrates states that he would much rather die than refrain from spreading his wisdom of philosophy. In the Crito‚ Socrates refuses to escape from prison with Crito because
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In Plato’s Apology and Xenophon’s Apology‚ Socrates is facing charges for his actions. This opens a slew of questions about the charges against Socrates. Throughout the books‚ the charges that Socrates faces are failure to know the gods about the city‚ promoting unfamiliar spiritual ideas‚ and for corrupting the youth. This varies from book to book as each book talks about the relationship between philosophy and the city and how it plays a role. It dives into the bigger question: does education lead
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The Real Apology the American People Needed On September 11‚ 1998‚ President Clinton gave his infamous speech he titled “I have Sinned” at the Prayer Breakfast. In this speech‚ he addressed the issue of having a sexual relationship with a woman named Monica Lewinsky and apologized for his actions. The nature of his first speech seemed more of “self-defense” rather than the apology the American people wanted to hear (59). In the attempt to have a successful speech‚ President Bill Clinton had
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Plato’s Apology Dublin Institute of Technology Students’ name: Lilian Muraro (D14125029) Access Foundation Programme An essay submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the module of Introduction to Humanities Lecturer: Will Peters 15 December 2014 Account of the Trial of Socrates as outlined in Plato’s Apology This essay is analysis of the accusations against Socrates during his trial‚ based mainly on Plato’s interpretation of it in his work The Apology (Jowett
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When writing a complaint letter‚ you want to keep it short and to the point to help ensure that your letter will be read in its entirety. If you write a seven page complaint letter‚ it’s highly unlikely that someone will sit down and read all seven pages. The complaint letter should be addressed to the customer service/consumer affairs department or the head office if there is no customer service department. The address and contact information of the customer service department should be available
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How to Write Complaint Letters Introduction Letters of complaint usually include the following stages: 1. Background 2. Problem - cause and effect 3. Solution 4. Warning (optional) 5. Closing 1. Background This section describes the situation; e.g. I am writing to inform you that the goods we ordered from your company have not been supplied correctly. I attended your exhibition Sound Systems 2014 at the Fortune Hotel (22-25 January) and found it informative and interesting. Unfortunately
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In 399 BC‚ a famous Athenian philosopher by the name of Socrates was found guilty in two offenses. The city of Athens gathered to hear the trial‚ and The Apology by Plato allows to better understand what was said in Socrates’ defense and sort through the logistics of the case. Meletus‚ the prosecutor‚ charged Socrates with an account of living an impious life and with a second account of corrupting the youth of Athens. Yet‚ I can attest that truly Socrates was innocent in the case of these two accounts
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against his father. The two men discussion the natures of both piety and justice. Their conversation ending when Socrates proves to Euthyphro that his (Euthyphro’s) actions are not what he believes them to be‚ and Euthyphro leaves in confusion. The Apology‚ which is a second dialog of Plato‚ represent of Socrates’s speech that he proclaims at the trial in which he is
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These concerns are addressed again in The Apology. First it is critical to recall that Plato‚ in the voice of Socrates‚ regards himself as the “physician of the State” and the “only Athenian living who practices the true art of politics” (Gorgias 521). So in The Apology when Socrates goes to the marketplace in search of answers‚ he surely sees himself practicing an art‚ and indeed sees himself as a philosopher
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