The Unjust Speech Analysis

According to the Homeric traditions the philosophical definition of politics was the identification, maintenance, and transformation of community core values from the old to the young generation. Over time civilizations have developed a political system in order to achieve organization, equality, justice, and stability within a community. A political community helps manage laws, distributes power, and plays a crucial role in the development of a virtuous life in citizenry; which is imperative in the term of it’s existence. Contrary to politics, philosophy teaches us to become rationalized beings and to think for ourselves rather than imitating or listening to other people. It also allows us to reason and use logic to make sense of things for

It is defined as unjust due to it’s aim to contradict every argument and to make up things on the spot. The unjust speech is represented as the young generation which is considered to be arrogant and untraditional and the “just” speech has a conservative and traditional view. Socrates is accused of teaching the younger generation the unjust speech and the dilemma lies within the fear that children will use it against their elders and will overthrow traditions. In Aristophanes Clouds, Strepsiades wants his son to learn the unjust speech in order to rid himself of debtors and to find a way to bend the law and have some personal gain. However, everything backfires when Pheidippides slaps his father and claims that his actions are just and he can prove it, “Strep: Do you beat your father? Pheid: Yes, and I will make it clearly apparent, by Zeus, that I was beating you with justice..”(Aristophanes 169). Aristophanes’ accusations about Socrates is proven true with this example of the young using the unjust speech to cause harm. However his reasoning behind Socrates’ speech does not justify that his speech is “unjust” due to the fact that if an argument can be contradicted or questioned it is not a strong argument/claim. It is considered unjust based upon how one utilizes it; while Pheidippides uses the unjust speech for arrogance Socrates uses this form of speech to prove that he is innocent. In Plato’s Apology, Meletus charges Socrates for teaching and corrupting people and for creating new Gods, however he states that Socrates does not believe in God, in turn contradicting himself, Socrates states, “Then before these very Gods, Meletus, about whom our speech now is, speak to me and to these men still more plainly. For I am not able to understand whether you are saying that I teach them to believe that there are Gods of some