Socrates Untimely End Analysis

Socrates' Untimely End In Plato's The Apology, Socrates is taken to court and prosecuted for "Corrupting the minds of the youth". By expanding the minds of his students through allowing them to look at the world a little different and question it instead of blindly accepting it. He lets them wonder and ponder on whether the way things are, is truly the way things should be or is there more to the world then what has been told to them growing up. Even though Socrates has never been put on trial before throughout the entirety of his life and even though he is teaching his students freely, he is still being tried as a criminal. It is through the fear of change that the jury finds Socrates guilty in the end, even though his argument was profoundly logical and appealing to the point that if this trial would be set today, he would …show more content…
At first Socrates doesn't believe it because he is a humble man, but as time goes by he accepts as truth because he realizes that he is the wisest man in Athens because he is fully aware of his own ignorance. He is aware that he doesn't know everything but unlike other people who pretend to know when they don't, he embraces his ignorance. Looking at this statement, I believe Socrates uses it for two different reasons. One is that he is a bit frustrated that he is put on trial at all, and this way of thinking is what probably pushed the juror to put him on trial, so he uses the comment to belittle them by implying that they have no wisdom because they are too proud to admit that they don't know everything. The other reason why I believe he uses that comment is because he is trying to teach them while he is on trial. He is trying to pass on his wisdom and look at his trial differently. Maybe they don't know everything and maybe this man is truly innocent. He tries to appeal to their logical side to show them that there is no one set answer to