Subject: APPRECIATION FOR YOUR TEACHINGS

Subject: APPRECIATION FOR YOUR TEACHINGS

I thank you for teaching me that ancient Athens had massive contributions about life which I perceive and draw conclusions about myself. It is imminent that you were at the forefront of convicting Socrates of their hypocrisy in supporting religious unorthodoxy that also brought about political consequences. It is connected to the scandals involved with demolishing Athenian democracy that caused a general amnesty. I learn from this that Socrates changed his behavior that he had been used to cover his lifestyle, which made even his ardent supporters oblige to him. During those days, trials were done based on an emphasis on all prejudices about the accused. Socrates was charged following this whereby the opponents referred their case to Alcibiades, Critias, Charmides, his admirers and were enemies to Athens and all these accusations lacked a legal judge who could confront and prevent this.

Socrates had many accusations like the one associated with having opposed impiety and the one that was also about corruption of the young. The jury in this court case associated themselves with democratic opposers and those in a conviction of religious crimes and thus rendering him as a hazardous man. Anytus spoke against and supported Socrates’ prosecution, and because he was a prominent democratic leader, his impact on this was very high. Thus Socrates’ trial was to determine the future of the Athenian democracy. Meletus and Lycon were also involved in this, although there was a fear of making this public. Socrates defended himself through portraying antidemocratic ideas which caused an incapability to the jurors in differentiating his link to the democratic oppose. All these antecedents were perceived as fragile and were instituted for a long time during the then century.

I also learn from you that there lacks clear evidence of the Alciabides and Critias as Socrates prosecutors because their speeches were not recorded and thus an interpretation of this is awkward. Plato wrote an apology that shows the accusation was made following his students though he denied it he had never had students. This is what has set Alcibiades and Critias as Socrates followers by a report from Xenophon in Memorabilia and is a defence to Socrates against the charges made to him referencing to poly crates’ pamphlets. A century later, orator Aeschines spoke against Timarchus, giving proofs that the conviction of Socrates followed Critias as his student and was amongst those that overthrew the democracy. However, this was not very important to his trial and sentence because Socrates spent his most time devoted to gods and thus must be refuted. This political background gives reasons why it did not happen before or any other time.

The war between Athens and Sparta was perceived as a very different one because it sprouts up from a conflict that had lasted for twenty-seven years. Worst features of the Greek society became imminent out of this and were competitiveness, jingoism, lack of compassion and a disregard for human life. Some philosophical thinkers focused on the problems that emanate from people living together. There are those writings that were done during the war periods, and some of them are those of Thucydides, Sophocles and Euripides with Aristophanes producing dramatic plays.

I understand from your thoughts that the idea of Socrates caused many responses because it was very provocative, with many of his associates running schools that seemed to flourish where pleasure is affirmed to be the highest good. There are others supporting virtue to be the best for happiness, and good men should not be harmed. Both cynics and Socrates perceived conventional and the tradition of culture to impede life virtue. Nature for the part of animals and people not existing in the society is termed contemporary. The idea of the sufficiency of life for happiness causes many provocations towards marriage, family, national distinctions, authority and cultural. Here, the evidence was two vital schools founded by Socrates and is the stoicism and scepticism. Cynics also caused an influence on Zeno with others having a sagacious robust paradigm with new Socratic arguments. From this, I come to know that today’s divine intelligence from the stoic doctrine follows the ideas of the Socrates put forward through Xenophon from the memorabilia.

Your teachings also show that there reached a time when the Athenians relocated from their temples and homes where later on farmers came to be hosted by friends and relatives with others running for empty spaces in the city bunks. This was all an attribute from war and expecting the fight to end soon, but unfortunately, it took a long time. Athenians buried war casualties in the first year traditionally in public sessions. Arcesilaus philosophized thesis through Socratic questions where a contradiction sprouts up, which was regarded to be influential in the faithfulness of Plato’s themes and writings. All convictions were generally suspended not vowing to their knowledge. Differentiating truth from the false should cause disbelief to anything. Socrates claims not to be knowledgeable with a look at specific thesis which is of greater importance to the faith than is expected of them getting denied.

Different perceptions from the Socrates and Athenian democracy have had an influence on the later philosophers like Leo Strauss, Hannah Arendt, and Karl Popper, among others. Here, I learn more about myself due to self-reflection and self-care from their writings. This is because the complacency and teachings of integrity from this was useful to both the philosophers and those in the academy done through the books of analytical philosophy and conceptual analysis for the inquiry through non-empirical means. Later on, Christian martyr thinkers reflected in the modern scientific and rational world. Because of his paradigm, Socrates associated with the religion of Buddha, Confucius and Christ.

Reading your vivid descriptions of the ancient Greek specifically to what happened in the war period has given me a good understanding in general with the philosophical ideas impacting positively to my thinking and perception about life in general. Public life and the polis laws teach me more about loyalty, justice, courage and love. It comes to teachings in the revolution of the new genres that replaces what took place in ancient times, bringing meaning in life through different paths. It also brings lessons of solving issues amicably to curb the sprout of blood and civil conflicts.

Am exposed to both modernity and the past out of your views and ideas reflecting on the Greek philosophy. The Socrates jury confrontation, with the records, are lost in history because of the fights because the best evidence is in Plato’s apology during your cross-examination in a legal convention. Bravo to you.

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Meletus, Greek poet  (2019). Greek philosopher. An encyclopedia Britannica research.