1 - Plato's Apology 1: The Divine Troll
Good in Theory: A Political Philosophy Podcast
English - May 11, 2020 16:00 - 41 minutes - 28.3 MBPhilosophy Society & Culture Education philosophy political theory history politics plato political philosophy aristotle history of ideas political thought theory Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Socrates, daddy of Greek philosophy, is on trial for impiety and corrupting the youth.
According to him, his only crime was trolling the city of Athens.
The Apology is an account of Socrates’s court defence, told by his student Plato. This is part 1 of a 4-part series on this book.
Text of Plato’s Apology: http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/apology.html