Charges against Socrates

Informal charges:

"Socrates is an evil-doer, and a curious person, who searches into things under the earth and in heaven, and he makes the worse appear the better cause; and he teaches the aforesaid doctrines to others." (IP3 11bf)

Formal charges:

"Socrates in guilty of corrupting the young and of not believing in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other new divinities." (Apology 24b)


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Richard Lee, rlee@uark.edu, last modified: 22 August 2004