PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The Examined Life, Pythia, Endless Sleep
3 Oct 2017
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Socrates is on trail for 1)impiety 2) corruption of the youth accusers are anytus, meletus, lyeon. Socrates agrees that he cannot be charged with impiety bc and strange new gods ( demon ) as it cant be both. He argues that he cannot be charged with corrupting the youth bc no one would willingly corrupt anther bc they would be harmed themselves by corruption charge of corruption im. Role of philosophy philosophy as an admission of ignorance the delphic oracle claims that there none wiser than socrates and socrates takes this to mean that wisdom is admitting that one does not know. Death death should not be feared, according to socrates bc either it is i) an endless sleep; or ii) more life where the soul migrates to another plane represents in some ways a break from ancient greek thinking.
