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Originally Posted by asaris
So Socrates was accused of 'impiety'. If you'd read any of Plato's other dialogues, you'd know that Socrates was hardly an atheist.
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I have read Plato's other dialogues and furthermore Socrates defends himself against the charge of atheism.
You've created a strawman in assuming that I was accusing Socrates of atheism-I wasn't.
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Originally Posted by asaris
If there was any justice to the claim of the Athenian court that Socrates did not honor the traditional gods, it was that he tended more strongly towards monotheism than most of his contemporaries.
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I don't know about that; Socrates believed in a Daemon (sp?), but he also believed in the traditional Gods, such as Apollo, who sent him on his quest in the first place.
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Originally Posted by asaris
And, moreover, it seems from the Apology that the proceedings of the court were motivated more from political reasons than anything else.
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When I read the apology I was more struck by the need for vengence in Socrates' accusers then I was that it was politically motivated. It has been a while since I've read it, but if my memory holds, the idea was that Socrates was being brought up on fallacious charges to satisfy the petty revenge of three of athenians citizens.
They accused him of atheism and of corrupting the youth, he of course rebutted all of that, but was found guilty anyway.