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THE ATLAS OF THE CAVE AND THE SUN

The Apology

the Apology
nature
Socrates' defence speech at his trial, as Plato gives it: he will not stop questioning, he does not fear death because he does not claim to know what it is, and if acquitted on condition of silence he would refuse the terms.

The document behind 517a. Read the two together and the allegory stops being a thought-experiment about epistemology and becomes a man writing about the death of his teacher.
rhymes with
sephirahgevurah
whyA verdict, and a man's answer to it.
tags
apology · trial · 399 bce · defence
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