Plato's Apology and the Laws of Impiety

West says philosophy has a tendency to become dogmatic. He blames stalanism and hitler, sort of notism is represented through heidiger. And that this disaster in the world of ideas led to an actu disaster in the political world. But i don't think plato would have seen socratess type of impiety as real impiety. It seems, in the end, as if socrates was legitimately put to death. So we don't have to look to the laws. I mean, it's in the republic too, right, having all these laws against impiety. You now, not that the rent was doing exactly this, but he's giving his own diagnosis