In the fifth class session of our course, we will be working through the fourth Platonic dialogue for this class, Plato's Apology

On Saturday, we will hold our fifth online class session using Zoom. We will be recording the class session, and it will be uploaded for all of you students as an unlisted YouTube video embedded here in our class site (these won't be shared with non-students). After that, I will open the Week 5 Discussion Forum to student comments and questions, so that we can continue the discussion throughout the week

The specific topics we will be working through during this week's class session are:

• Socrates’ intellectual origin story
• Socrates older accusers
• Addressing charges against Socrates
• Socrates as a gadfly to Athens
• Why death could be a good thing
  
  

You will doubtless find it useful to read through Plato's dialogue, the Apology before our class session, perhaps more than once. You will also likely discover that rereading that portion of the text after participating in or watching the class session will help you develop a deeper understanding of Plato's ideas.