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
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