OUTLINE for Plato Classes

 

Apology

1. Socrates has been accused of impiety and corrupting youth. The Apology

(Grk- defense) is his defense
    1. previous dialogue is Euthyphro.
    2. Is there a dialogue here?

C. Where are we in history: loss during the Pelop War

CRITO

11. DIALOGUE seems to have taken place on the 1000 anniversary of the

foundation of Athens

A. reminder of where we are

B. Socrates says he won’t go

C. Crito’s response

D. Crito care deeply but is impatient with argument

E. Crito cannot understand the abstract argument (50A) about states

so Socrates is forced to anthropomorphize and raise the question of the

agon--

F. What do we make of S?

111. BUT there is a problem:

A. Crito is convinced enough to allow S to stay, but he is not changed

-- he doesn't see. He is just the same.