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| ====== The End of Plato’s Apology of Socrates ====== | ====== The End of Plato’s Apology of Socrates ====== | ||
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| This is a very different Socrates than the one we meet in other early dialogues. In these early dialogues, Socrates is playful and ironic, but here Socrates is bold, daring, and fiery. One can sense the seriousness Plato is trying to convey. Socrates is not being ironic when he says that Athens will be treated with disrespect over Socrates’ death or that vengeance will come to those who condemned him to die. These are the last words of a serious man, one who dedicated his life to the city that eventually condemns him to die. This climatic scene makes the Apology a terrible tragedy, but a tragedy with an affirmative, | This is a very different Socrates than the one we meet in other early dialogues. In these early dialogues, Socrates is playful and ironic, but here Socrates is bold, daring, and fiery. One can sense the seriousness Plato is trying to convey. Socrates is not being ironic when he says that Athens will be treated with disrespect over Socrates’ death or that vengeance will come to those who condemned him to die. These are the last words of a serious man, one who dedicated his life to the city that eventually condemns him to die. This climatic scene makes the Apology a terrible tragedy, but a tragedy with an affirmative, | ||
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