Was Socrates a democrat? Melissa Lane looks at the reputation of Socrates, both at the time of his death and in subsequent debates about democracy. History Today (1/1/2002)
...about Athens coloured our view of Socrates? It is best to begin by asking why the Athenians convicted Socrates. Our evidence from the trial...Plato (c. 429-347 BC) in his Apologia of Socrates, which literally meant in Greek...

The Seductions of Socrates. First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (6/1/2001)
...a cause. The formal charge that cost Socrates his life--"Socrates is guilty of not believing in the gods...has set philosophers to offering apologia ever since, as if in defending Socrates from this charge philosophy can define...

KNOW THYSELF; Just as Socrates defended his very beliefs when accused of betraying the city-state of Athens in 399 B.C., a dozen Boston high school seniors are now putting their own souls to the test to answer doubts leveled against them by society - and themselves. The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) (2/10/2008)
...year's senior talks, known as an apologia, a Socratic exercise defending one...Greece, the philosopher and teacher Socrates was accused of refusing to recognize...piece-by-piece self-defense, Socrates also put forth an overarching defense...work called "Apology." Through the ...

Journal of the History of Philosophy: Vol. 47, No. 3, July 2009.(PHILOSOPHICAL ABSTRACTS) The Review of Metaphysics (6/1/2009)
...Gorgias, D. B. FUTTER In Gorgias, Socrates' interlocutors charge him with argumentative...recent paper, Jessica Moss presents an apologia for Socrates on these charges, arguing that although (1) Socrates adopts a strategy of shaming rather...

The Apology Primary Is On; McCain's career-enhancing apologies are legion. But his reputation for using contrition to charm his way out of trouble might be catching up with him.(John McCain) Newsweek (3/5/2007)
...apology has reverted in politics to its original meaning in Greek, which is "defense." (Plato's "Apologia" is an account of Socrates' unsuccessful defense of himself in his trial.) Exhibit A is McCain, whose career-enhancing apologies...

Plato in Hollywood: David Mamet and the power of illusions. Mosaic (Winnipeg) (6/1/1999)
...experience: at one extreme there is the Socrates type who evaluates the performance by...much as Plato sets up the antithesis of Socrates and Philebus, the philosopher and the...must finally be seen in terms of this apologia. As I see it, since the occurrence...

Albert the Great. On the Causes of the Properties of the Elements.(Book review) The Review of Metaphysics (3/1/2011)
...modem science, I doubt if there is any apologia that could convince a modern reader that...height of the fall; and the claire that Socrates slew a pair of poison breathing dragons...Is there a harmony of the spheres, as Socrates so famously argued in the Republic...

To What End?(The Sheed and Ward Anthology of Catholic Philosophy)(Book review) Commonweal (11/17/2006)
...Rowman & Littlefield, $35, 608 pp. In Plato's Apology, Socrates's claim to be wiser than anyone else in Athens rests on a...Gospel!"--tempered somewhat by Clement of Alexandria's apologia for philosophy as "a schoolmaster to bring the Greek mind...

La persuasione e la rettorica e Zen and the Art of the Motorcycle Maintenance: le forme eretiche del tragico moderno e del nichilismo antiscientifico.(comparison of dissertation by Carlo Michelstaedter and work by R. M. Pirsig and critique of corrupt scientific projects)(article in Italian)(Critical essay) Annali d'Italianistica (1/1/2005)
...existence. While dialogizing with pre-Socratic philosophers, Socrates and Buddha, and leveling equally strong accusations at conceptual...estetica diventa pura anarchia, la non-arte nuovo canone, l'apologia della violenza ginnastica disordinata, il rifiuto dell'ordine...