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Speaking to the jurors as they’d heard him in the Agora, Socrates reveals Athens as a cosmopolitan commercial city with a liberal ethos that is being challenged by rurally-grounded locals objecting to the openness of the laws and jury decisions. But the preponderance of his jurors are liberal cosmopolitan businessmen. As for his being tried, Meletus had once been a follower of Socrates, but turned against him when he began to suspect that Socrates’ daimon was not a god and that Socrates might be sympathetic to the profit-seeking, liberal cosmopolitans. At the end Socrates, in encouraging those who voted to convict him and condemn him to death to do to his sons what he did to them, reveals that to turn his enemies into virtuous and just men, he must incite their unsatisfied desire for vengeance. |
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Name: American Political Science Association
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| Plax, Martin. "On the Apology of Socrates: A Rebuttal" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Sep 01, 2005 <Not Available>. 2011-03-14 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p42734_index.html> |
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| Plax, M. J. , 2005-09-01 "On the Apology of Socrates: A Rebuttal" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC Online <PDF>. 2011-03-14 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p42734_index.html |
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Speaking to the jurors as they’d heard him in the Agora, Socrates reveals Athens as a cosmopolitan commercial city with a liberal ethos that is being challenged by rurally-grounded locals objecting to the openness of the laws and jury decisions. But the preponderance of his jurors are liberal cosmopolitan businessmen. As for his being tried, Meletus had once been a follower of Socrates, but turned against him when he began to suspect that Socrates’ daimon was not a god and that Socrates might be sympathetic to the profit-seeking, liberal cosmopolitans. At the end Socrates, in encouraging those who voted to convict him and condemn him to death to do to his sons what he did to them, reveals that to turn his enemies into virtuous and just men, he must incite their unsatisfied desire for vengeance. |
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| On the Apology of Socrates: A Rebuttal Martin J. Plax Adjunct Faculty Cleveland State University Prepared for delivery at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association September 1-4 2005 Copyright by the American Political Science Association 1 On the Apology of Socrates: A Rebuttal1 Martin J. Plax Prefatory Note This paper like my published essays on Platonic dialogues is the product of a thought experiment the result of re-reading Plato in light of my twenty-six year |
| he concluded his speech by encouraging his opponents to do to his sons what he had done to them. The only reason his opponents would be inclined to do so would be if they wanted more revenge against him. Here is perhaps the final act of Socratic irony. By exploiting the unfulfilled desire for further revenge among his enemies he was actually encouraging them to imitate his way of life. This amounts to his recognition that virtue will be |
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