Socrates once said, "you are wrong if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death." And when faced with the possibility, and then the certainty, of his own death in the trial of Apology, Socrates didn't waver from his commitment to justice. Throughout this video I explore why and how Socrates uses two arguments, the 'Argument from Uncertainty' and the 'Two Things Argument,' to challenge the common fear of death as the "greatest of evils."

Timestamps:
00:00 || Introduction
00:28 || Socrates Towards Life
01:16 || The Apology
02:59 || The Argument from Uncertainty
05:35 || Socrates in the Face of Death and the Two Things Argument
12:54 || On Plato
13:45 || In Conclusion

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Music:
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Sources:
The Apology from: Plato, G. M. A. Grube, and John M. Cooper. Five Dialogues. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2002.

Austin, Emily, "Fear and Death in Plato" (2009). All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs). 27. https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/etd/27

Austin, Emily A. "Prudence and the Fear of Death in Plato’s Apology." Ancient Philosophy 30, no. 1 (Spring 2010): 3955. doi:10.5840/ancientphil20103013.

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