It is dealing, therefore, with the problem of rhetoric, that is, with the question of “words …” So, the dialogue, from the beginning and from its title, purports to give us the “speeches” Socrates himself gave in his own defense at his trial. To start with, it is interesting to note that this dialogue does not take a proper noun (the name of one of the characters in the dialogue concerned) as a title but chooses a common noun, one that refers to the act of defense.īecause in Greek Ἀπολογία = “apology” does not mean as in current English, “I am sorry,” but refers to a “verbal” defense. In it, Socrates makes his own defense of the accusations he had received for corrupting the youths and introducing new gods in the city of Athens. The Apology is one of the so-called Early Dialogues of Plato.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |