need help with the following 3 questions!     In the Apology,…

need help with the following 3 questions!     In the Apology,…

need help with the following 3 questions!   In the Apology, Socrates famously compares himself to a gadfly:

 

 

“I was attached to this city by the god – though it seems a ridiculous thing to say – as upon a great and noble horse which was somewhat sluggish because of its size and needed to be stirred up by a kind of gadfly. It is to fulfill some such function that I believe the god has placed me in the city. I never cease to rouse each and every one of you, to persuade and reproach you all day long and everywhere I find myself in your company.” (30e)

1) Explain what Socrates means when he compares himself to a gadfly. In other words, analyze the metaphor.

2) Explain why you think Kierkegaard is a Socratic gadfly.

3) Explain why you think Nietzsche is a Socratic gadfly.