A review by jbmorgan86
Apology by Plato
ap·o·lo·gi·a
ˌapəˈlōj(ē)ə/
noun
a formal written defense of one's opinions or conduct.
Plato's Apology is a defense of the martyred Socrates. Plato recounts Socrates trial and defends his hero.
The stand-out passage for me was:
"For if I tell you that this would be a disobedience to a divine command, and therefore that I cannot hold my tongue, you will not believe that I am serious; and if I say again that the greatest good of man is daily to converse about virtue, and all that concerning which you hear me examining myself and others, and that the life which is unexamined is not worth living - that you are still less likely to believe. And yet what I say is true, although a thing of which it is hard for me to persuade you."
ˌapəˈlōj(ē)ə/
noun
a formal written defense of one's opinions or conduct.
Plato's Apology is a defense of the martyred Socrates. Plato recounts Socrates trial and defends his hero.
The stand-out passage for me was:
"For if I tell you that this would be a disobedience to a divine command, and therefore that I cannot hold my tongue, you will not believe that I am serious; and if I say again that the greatest good of man is daily to converse about virtue, and all that concerning which you hear me examining myself and others, and that the life which is unexamined is not worth living - that you are still less likely to believe. And yet what I say is true, although a thing of which it is hard for me to persuade you."