PHIL1070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Meletus, Thrasymachus, Direct Democracy
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Epistemic humility: knowing what it is that you don"t know. Only when you know what you don"t know do you bother to seek it. Socrates was born 469 bc and died 399 bc. The verdict vote is close then socrates talks and his death sentence is almost a landslide. Thrasymachus was put to death by a socrates follower. One of socrates" followers took both men"s" land. Two official charges: corrupting the youth, failure to worship the gods. Unofficial charge: making the weaker argument the stronger, why is this dangerous, perhaps because it upends the status quo, offends people in charge because they usually have the stronger/more popular argument, involves socrates telling everyone they"re dumb. He says he"s not good at public speaking. But he speaks publically all the time . He means he"s not good at lying like a sophist to get what he wants. Rather he explains the origin of the charge without actually defending himself at all.
