In Plato's Five Dialogues, Socrates makes some pretty strong comments pertaining to the authority of the state government and its laws. These comments show up in both the Apology and the Crito. However, the fundamental claims Socrates makes in the Crito, are apparently contradictory with the ...

Plato's Euthyphro depicts Socrates engaged in conversation with Euthyphro, a man who claims to have superior knowledge in the subject of ethics and piety. The conversation between the men takes place in the hall of the king. Socrates faces an indictment by a man named Meletus on the impious c...

The Invisible Attributes of the Trial Over the past two-thousand years a great number of philosophers have contributed their time and efforts to fully understand the views and teachings of the Socratic Method. Plato's Apology generates a feeling of these views by elaborating the very essence...

Plato’s Apology is the story of the trial of Socrates, the charges brought against him and his maintaining of his own innocence throughout the process. At the onset of the trial, Socrates appears to challenging the charges, which included corrupting the youth, challenging belief in the gods ...