He strongly attacks Meletus for wasting the courtЎ¦s time on such absurd charges. Socrates then proceeds to interrogate Meletus, the man primarily responsible for bringing Socrates before the jury. He explains that he has no experience with the law courts and that he will instead speak in the manner to which he is accustomed with honesty and directness. For the most part, Socrates speaks in a very plain, conversational manner. Socrates makes at the trial in which he is charged with not recognizing the gods recognized by the state, inventing new gods, and corrupting the youth of Athens.

Plato's The Apology is an account of the speech. Moreover, those help us to understand PlatoЎ¦s presentation of the strange legal and ethical drama. Exploring that contradiction, between Ў§Socrates the loyal Athenian citizenЎЁ and Ў§Socrates the philosophical critic of Athenian society,ЎЁ will help to position PlatoЎ¦s Socrates in an Athenian legal and historical context it allows us to reunite Socrates the literary character and Athens the democratic city that tried and executed him. Behind these conundrums is a contradiction less often explored: Socrates is at once the most Athenian, most local, citizenly, and patriotic of philosophers and yet the most self-regarding of Athenians. For these two articles that we read in Crito and Apology by Plato, we could know Socrates is an enduring person with imagination, because he presents us with a mass of contradictions: Most eloquent men, yet he never wrote a word ugliest yet most profoundly attractive ignorant yet wise wrongfully convicted, yet unwilling to avoid his unjust execution.

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