The American judicial system is one of the most fair and unbiased to this day. Innocent until proven guilty is one of our country’s well known statutes. This is because our judicial system is unlike many European countries. Those countries‚ like Italy or the United Kingdom‚ presume that the accused are guilty‚ and give them the task of proving innocence‚ rather than maintaining innocence. This idea of presumed innocence in America began while the structure of American government was being built.
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Philosophy 1100 Burton May 10‚ 2011 Is Socrates guilty as charged? One of the most controversial issues in the history of Philosophy involves the trial of Socrates’ conviction. Socrates was accused on two charges. The charges were that he had corrupted the youth of Athens in his teachings‚ and that he advocated the worship of false gods. I believe Socrates is a good man and should not be convicted of the charges brought upon him. I find Socrates innocent‚ and after investigating the issues‚ I discovered
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Socrates‚ in his conviction from the Athenian jury‚ was both innocent and guilty as charged. In Plato’s Five Dialogues‚ accounts of events ranging from just prior to Socrates’ entry into the courthouse up until his mouthful of hemlock‚ both points are represented. Socrates’ in dealing with moral law was not guilty of the crimes he was accused of by Meletus. Socrates was only guilty as charged because his peers had concluded him as such. The laws didn’t find Socrates guilty; Socrates was guilty
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Persuasion: Socrates’ Apology In speaking of effective rhetorical persuasion‚ we must appeal to our target audience in a way that will get them to accept or act upon the point of view we are trying to portray. Aristotle said that we persuade others by three means: (1) by the appeal to their reason (logos); (2) by the appeal to their emotions (pathos); and (3) by the appeal of our personality or character (ethos) (Corbett and Connors 32). When Socrates‚ an infamous rhetorician‚ gave his “apology” to his
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Assignment The Last Days of Socrates Question/Answer Essay In Plato’s apology: The trial of Socrates‚ Socrates is convicted by a great and many crimes. Through these blames Socrates comes up with different ways of countering the assumptions cast upon in his defense. In turn‚ through his defense Socrates makes some very strong points that revolve around the aspect of truth‚ re-phrasing questions and outlining the respect people should give to one another. Through this‚ Socrates makes his point clearer
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great deal of experience with that reprobate of a man that we call Socrates. I am here today with my fellow accusers‚ Meletus and Anytus‚ to prove that Socrates is guilty. I feel that Athens would be a much better place if Socrates were put to death. He is always questioning the government and I feel that is wrong and unruly to do such a thing to our government and it seems to be a threat to them as well. My experiences with Socrates were very minimally recognized in society but
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than this one‚ I think any man‚ even a great king‚ will not find many such days or nights‚ when compared with the others.” (Socrates‚ “Apology”‚ p. 49) 2.
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Socrates was a Philosopher from Greece‚ who is credited as one of the founders of Western Philosophy. He was an enigma who scholars in the modern world who learned about the writings of his students such as Xenophon and Plato. Plato wrote extensively about his master Socrates‚ and this helps shed light on the nature of Socrates. In this research‚ I am going to converse about the view that Socrates had on death. His views on death are expressed by Plato in his book known as Apology: Defense of Socrates
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To Socrates the connection of the good life and death are very important‚ and he talks about what a good life is in The Apology. So‚ what is a good life according to Socrates? And what is a good life’s relation to death? What do these two very opposing ideas have to do with each other? Well they have a lot more to do with each other than one would immediately think. First in order to understand the connection between these two antithetical concepts we have to understand what exactly Socrates means
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Plato and Aristotle Name: Course instructor: Plato and Aristotle Just like Plato makes it clear especially in his apology of Socrates saying that he was among the devoted young followers‚ he must have told Aristotle about how he loved pizza but Aristotle must have argued out that he knew the pizza guy but he knew not about the extra large mutton and olive pie regardless of how hungry they were. This is just like they knew little about the hockey but knew about Athens
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