Apology
The term apology (of spätlat. Apologia, ἀπολογία from ancient Greek. , Apologia for " defense, justification" ) denotes
- A defense speech or writing, an apologetic justification of a specific transaction, one (of other people rejected ) Act
- A defense, justification of a comprehensive doctrine, religion, a person in general, independent of a concrete fact, apologetics, often constricted in the German-speaking world to Christianity, not only in written form; the performer is the apologist, the author of a defense, first of early Christianity against attacks of older religions; in a broad sense the defense of another belief, a concrete politician, etc.
These works bear apology as a book title (in chronological order ):
With reference to the famous defense speech of Socrates
- Apology (Plato ), the written down by Plato defense speech of Socrates
- Apology ( Xenophon ), written by Xenophon defense speech of Socrates before the court
- The True Apology of Socrates, a fictional defense speech of Socrates from the pen of the Greek writer Kostas Varnalis
With respect to other persons
- Apologia, a common title of the speech for the defense of Apuleius, held 158/159; However, the authentic title was per se de magia or shortly De magia
- Apologia of Samuel von Pufendorf
- Apology of the Augsburg Confession by Philipp Melanchthon
- Apologia pro vita sua, Autobiography of John Henry Newman
- Apology of the history of science or the profession of the historian Marc Bloch
See also:
- Disambiguation