PHILOS 25A Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Meletus, Natural Philosophy, Blic
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Socrates in apology: the good life and death: charges. Second charge (meletus" indictment: socrates is guilty of corrupting the young and of not believing in the gods in who the city believes, but in other spiritual (daimonic) things. What caused my reputation is none other than a certain kind of wisdom. It may be that i really possess this, while those whom i mentioned just now are wise with a wisdom more than human; else i cannot explain it, for i certainly do not possess it, and whoever says. I do is lying and speaks to slander me (20d-e). Defense against the second charge: the delphic oracle no one is wiser than socrates. socrates set out to refute the oracle by examining those reputed wise to find someone wiser than him. As a result he came to dislike me, and so did many of the bystanders.
