Saturday, February 2, 2019
Argument in the Apology Essay -- Plato Socrates
The main argument in The Apology by famous ancient Greek philosopher Plato is whether, notorious speaker and philosopher Socrates is debauch the jejuneness by preaching ungodly theories and teaching them unlawful ideas that do disparage to individuals and society. In his words Socrates quoted the prosecutions accusation against him Socrates is guilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing in supernatural things of his own invention instead of the gods know by the state. 1 Further Socrates consistently introduces tediously compiled number of examples to volunteer valid and sound arguments to prove that he is innocent of the charges brought up against him to the court. The source approach that Socrates uses to prove his innocences is he uses a hard-nosed comparison between one dollar bills and all living and artifical things Take the case of horses do you believe that those who improve them make up the whole of the mankind and that on that point is only star p erson who has a bad effect on them? Or is the truth just the opposite that the ability to improve them belongs to one person or to very few persons, who are horse-trainers, whereas most people, if they prepare to do with horses and make use of them, do them harm. 2The premises in this quote are1.Horse trainers do improve horses. 2.Those who use the horses do not enhance them. 3.There are more horse owners than the horse trainers. 4.Therefore, the improvements come from a small group of specia...
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