Why was Socrates convicted?
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- Created on: 25-01-22 10:23
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- Why was Socrates convicted in 399BC?
- Trial
- negative tone throughout the trial was increase the chance that the jury wouold find him guilty
- blunt
- Apolopgy
- his defence
- his associates
- charges
- Corrupting the youngs
- impiety
- negative tone throughout the trial was increase the chance that the jury wouold find him guilty
- Pre-Socratics, progressive thinkers and sophists
- When Pericles began to be upopular when proposing his Acropolis rebuilding programme, Anaxagoras was thrown under suspicion
- shows there's guilty via associatio
- Athens felt threatened by non-conventual views
- Euripides left Athens because his plays were forward thinking
- distrust of sophists may have fed into the accusation that Socrates 'corrupted the young'
- When Pericles began to be upopular when proposing his Acropolis rebuilding programme, Anaxagoras was thrown under suspicion
- Arguments that he wasn't impious
- He believed in the Oracle of Delphi
- urged his friends to use the oracle because the god knew more than he
- he conducted religious acts
- eg sacrifices
- argued by Xenaphon
- condemned the Sophists because of their conflicting beliefs and teachings
- argued that he had a DAIMONION which acted as a voice of reason that guided his beliefs
- however this could be negatively interpreted
- He believed in the Oracle of Delphi
- Socrates' actions/ Public opinion
- Socrates belived in the Oracle at Dlephi
- when Athens believed Delphi to be 'Anti-Athenian' and Socrates believing in it, there was increased distrust and dislike towards him because of it. contributing factor.
- gained a reputation for proving to people they weren't wise or intelligent. went round to people such as poets and prophets
- Aritophanes' Clouds
- makes Socrates sound more like a Pre-Socratic - somone who thought more about science
- some less educated members f the audience might have taken literally what Socrates was saying in the play eg that he didn't belive in Zeus, when there is actually no evidence of this
- due to his real appearance, Socrates is recognisable - easily made fun of in this
- makes Socrates sound more like a Pre-Socratic - somone who thought more about science
- Xenophion believed this may have been the reason why the charges were brought forward
- Socrates belived in the Oracle at Dlephi
- Politics
- distrusted him because of who he was friends with
- Following Pericles' death, Athens was in political chaos - Socrates may have been a scapegoat for their problems
- maybe people thought he was anti-democratic
- Delphi
- Trial
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