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KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY FACULTY OF HUMANITIES DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY St.Thomas Aquinas:Philosophical Theology (with a focus on divine immutability and divine simplicity) Done by: UA-0/2 group KAUNAS, 2001 Contents 1. Genre........................................................................1 2. Historical background............................................1 3. Historical Socrates................................................2 4. Ideas in conflict...................................................4 5. Introduction........................................................4 6. The Trial............................................................5 7. Conclusions........................................................10 8. Used literature.....................................................12 Genre Plato's Apology is in the widest sense an example of forensic oratory, in which Socrates defends himself in court against his accusers. The Apology is also an important example of a fairly extensive literature designed to defend Socrates against his detractors and to present what his defenders believed to be the real Socrates. Finally, it should be noted that the Apology is a set of speeches recreated by a second party after the fact and therefore should not be considered a word-for-word reproduction of what Socrates said on that occasion. Now, although the word "apology" is the direct descendant into English of the Greek word apología, the meaning has changed. The Greek word apología simply...

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