01:790:371 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Manichaeism, Attention Seeking, Neoplatonism
10 Aug 2016
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Search for self is at the center; we need to be engaged in self-examination and the examination of others. If you are mis-educating citizens, you are doing something bad for the state. Socrates introduces the idea of public speech and language to the jury. Winning one wants to make a convincing, persuasive argument. No matter if you are guilty or innocent, your goal is to win the case! Socrates says he"s engaged in teaching virtues/the nature of a virtue of people in a society back to searching for the self. Doesn"t believe that democracy should just be about competition/winning which is why he doesn"t engage in it. When he examines himself and others, he learns that other people think they know what"s right about political questions and other things when in fact they don"t really know that much . Speech is sacred to socrates those who make emotional trials (rhetoricians) turn speech into something frivolous.
