For our sake, we must believe Socrates is ignorant
-Alienating the youth from the Athenian culture
-is slavery just? Athens had certain beliefs about whether or not it was just… but Socrates
thought corrupting the youth was the essence of the problem. There WAS a law against
the corruption of the youth even though Socrates thought he was just urging them to
examine ways of life. He thinks he was doing them a favor
-The jurors (people of Athens) thought it was a negative move, a case of corrupting the
youth.
-In Plato, we see whether the decision to convict him was fair or not
-Is being a just person synonymous as always obeying the law?
-People do bad things involuntarily but they do it voluntarily just as much if not more
-Asocratic/Socratic paradox:
para-
counter
doxa-
belief/opinion aka. Counter to common
belief
-IF he is right, everything in this world is wrong. Nothing bad can happen to a good
person?... leaving aside the unexamined life is not worth living… not generally classified
as a paradox. Ought to lead us to question ‘what is going on here?’
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- Fall '11
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