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Apology by Plato

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Please provide answers for the following essay questions:

1.What was Cherephon’s question to the Oracle at Delphi? How does the Oracle reply? What does Socrates do to test the claim for the Oracle? What conclusion does Socrates reach? How does this determine Socrates’ continued course of action in Athens?

Required reading: http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/apology.html  and any other source regarding the subject. 

2.Explain Socrates argument in Crito, for why he should not escape from prison: Whose opinion do we follow? The difference between harming and wrongdoing. Who would Socrates harm if he escaped from prison? Why does Socrates ultimately stay in prison?

Required reading: http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/apology.html  and any other source regarding the subject. 

Each essay answers must be MLA format and should contain 350-400 words.

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1.What was Cherephon’s question to the Oracle at Delphi? He asked the Oracle to tell him if there was anyone who was wiser than Socrates. The author says, “ you must have known Chaerephon ;he was early a friend of mine and also a friend of yours, for he shared in the exile of the people and returned with you. Well, Chaerephon, as you know, was very impetuous in all his doings, and he went to Delphi and boldly asked the Oracle to tell him whether there was anyone wiser than I was” ("The Internet Classics Archive | Apology by Plato).

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