![]() ![]() It is therefore Socrates who brings his opponents to trial and eventually points the finger at the majority of the judges and their incompetence, while inveighing against the grave injustice inherent in the unfair trial brought against him. Socrates summarises the formal charges against him as follows: Socrates is guilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing in supernatural things. ![]() More than this, Plato portrays Socrates putting Meletus on trial for the same charge. ![]() Anticipating Aristotle’s Rhetoric, Socrates, as well as counteracting the prejudicial attack, deploys arguments aiming to disprove horrible suspicions he contests the disputed points by both denying the alleged events and their supposed harmfulness and arguing for his beneficent influence on the Athenians. According to Plato’s account, he was motivated to his public discourse by an early Oracle of Delphi, which had indicated that no one in Greece was wiser than Socrates. By applying Socrates’ teaching, Plato seeks to protect his adored teacher, thereby laying the foundations of his own philosophy. Thus, all the above are vital components of the ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry. His re-evaluation of archaic moral values had motivated the allegations. In Plato’s Apology of Socrates, Socrates defends himself against both the accusers and the accusation proper. ![]()
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