Socrates position in the trial of Plato’s Apology was not appropriate in my opinion because Plato was a student of the Socrates and I feel he was coached in the way he viewed philosophy, until he sought to find out the truth of what a wise person is and if there were wiser people other than himself. Plato did not believe that Socrates was the wisest, to him wise was seeking the truth with facts and not fallacies and images. Plato felt philosophy had nothing to do with being a physicalist or sophist nor were the Socrates either of these things and felt e was the most ignorant person because of the lack of knowledge dealing with the two but these accusations arouse towards him over the years from general prejudice surrounding him. This led him
