FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 11 AM in Lerner Hall
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In 399 BCE, Socrates was tried and convicted on a charge of impiety. The jury and judge of the trial were 500 (or 501) of his fellow Athenians. He was sentenced to death and compelled by the court to commit suicide by drinking hemlock. Plato’s Apology purports to represent the defense-speech that Socrates delivered before the jury. The speech stands as an eloquent justification of the “examined life” lived in keeping with the highest principles, according to which the “goods of the soul” are consistently upheld as the most important of all.