Introduction to PhilosophyNotesThis is not a substitute for coming to class - or for reading the material. Richard Lee
Philosophy 2003 C 001Copyright © 2002, Richard Lee Autumn 2002
 

Charges against Socrates

Informal charges:

"Socrates is an evil-doer, and a curious person, who searches into things under the earth and in heaven, and he makes the worse appear the better cause; and he teaches the aforesaid doctrines to others." (P 7b)

Formal charges:

"Socrates in guilty of corrupting the young and of not believing in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other new divinities." (Apology 24b)


Richard Lee, rlee@uark.edu, last modified: 3 September 2002