PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Socratic Questioning, Endless Sleep, Greco-Persian Wars
13 Dec 2013
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The apology is plato"s account of socrates" defense against charges of impiety: that socrates was charged with impiety and sentenced to death. Crito is a dramatization of his decision not to escape from athens the day before his execution. Solon"s reforms: democracy introduced, most of the cities worked as independent countries, was a democratic city state. Persian wars: kept independence by holding off the persians. Golden age of athens: became a very wealthy and cultured city. Alexander the great invades persia: spreads athenian culture through the helanistic world. Limited democracy: less democratic than we are in that women were not allowed to vote, immigrants weren"t allowed to vote, they had slaves. Had civil law suits where one citizen can be brought up against another, with a large jury of over. 100 people, and whoever was most persuasive won the case.
