Apology

Plato’s compact defense of Socrates joins courtroom speech to enduring questions about philosophy and conscience.

At a glance Apology presents Socrates before the Athenian jury and turns legal defense into a… Plato’s dialogue is brief, but it contains one of the foundational scenes of Western… Themes The work explores justice, civic duty, reputation, irony, piety, and the tension… Socrates speaks not as a tactician seeking acquittal at any price, but as a teacher…

The work explores justice, civic duty, reputation, irony, piety, and the tension between democratic judgment and philosophical inquiry.