Plato was, as we know, both pupil of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle. ... Plato's five greatest and most well known writings are, The Apology, Phaedo, Crito, The Republic, and Symposium. ... Symposium is about the function and purpose of love. The Republic is about Plato's ideal form of a republic. ... The war demolished the Academy that plato founded. ...
After his defence, recorded by his students Plato and Xenophon, Socrates was sentenced to death for his crimes; however, many primary source accounts encourage a secondary, insidious reason for why Socrates was really executed. In Plato's Apology, his version of the speech given by his scholar Socrates in defence for himself during his trail, Socrates denied the self-proposed false charges against him and accused the jurors of unfair judgement because of their prejudice and personal grudge against him and his philosophical ideas. ... The opposing views of multiple scholars from dramatical...
In "The Apology"," Plato claims that Socrates is the wisest man even if he doesn't believe that he is. Plato claims that, "he is not speaking of Socrates, he is only using my name by the way of illustration, as if he said, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing"" (pg. 104, p. 9). This is strength to Plato's argument because he explains why Socrates is going around spreading his knowledge. ... For example on page 7, section 25, Freud claims, "We assume that human instincts are of two kinds: those that converse and unify, which we call...
