Hello all,

Everyday I realize how little I know. Perhaps in this class I am looking for help in determining the bounds on which I can judge how little truth I know. Anyway, my name is Van Anderson, and I look forward to the this class and all of the discussions. Everything inside Platos' dialogues about the trial and execution of Socrates is amazing to read. This last summer I picked up Phaedo, Crito, and Meno and I reread them again last week. In Socrates' trial he stands before all the members of the court and speaks to them about the accusations brought against him. Taking seemingly small steps in logic, Socrates breaks down and destroys the prosecutors argument. Also interesting, Socrates had many friends, and such did they not want him to die, they were all willing to pay large sums of money to break him out of the jail cell, and send him to another shore to live. He makes quite an argument concerning justice and many other forms, but never do his friends stop pleading to him to flee. He cannot convince his audience of his innocence and he is sentenced to death. He never makes a sad remark. Can't wait for Wittgenstein. Later,
~Van