
Plato’s Trial of Athens
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What can we learn about the trial of Socrates from Plato''s dialogues? Most scholars say we can learn a lot from the Apology, but not from the rest. Plato''s Trial of Athens rejects this assumption and argues that Plato used several of his dialogues to turn the tables on Socrates'' accusers: they blamed Socrates for something the city had done to itself. Plato wanted to set the record straight and...
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What can we learn about the trial of Socrates from Plato''s dialogues? Most scholars say we can learn a lot from the Apology, but not from the rest. Plato''s Trial of Athens rejects this assumption and argues that Plato used several of his dialogues to turn the tables on Socrates'' accusers: they blamed Socrates for something the city had done to itself. Plato wanted to set the record straight and...
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