![]() ![]() ![]() Socrates’ Defence or The Apology of Socrates is Plato‘s version of the speech given by Socrates as he defended himself in Athens in 399 BC against the charges of ‘corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other daimonia that are novel’. Socrates, quoted by Plato, SOCRATES’ DEFENCE If I say ‘that would be to disobey the god how can I keep my peace, then?’, you’ll not believe me because you’ll think I’m dissembling if on the other hand I say that it actually is the greatest good for a human being to get into discussion, every day, about goodness and the other subjects you hear me talking and examining myself and others about, and that for a human being a life without examination is actually not worth living – if I say that, you’ll be even less convinced.īut that’s how I say it, Athenians it just not easy to convince you.’ ‘Someone will probably say, ‘But, Socrates, can’t you live in exile without talking, just keeping your peace? Surely you can do that?’ To convince some of you about this is the most difficult thing of all. ![]()
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