The Real Defense Of Socrates In Plato's Apology

“In what relation the Apology of Plato stands to the real defence of Socrates, there are no means of determining.” This is a quote from Plato’s Apology, it is the beginning line and it explains the whole dialogue. It sets the stage for the rest of the reading. Plato’s Apology is a dialogue where Plato basically narrates Socrates life. It is one of four dialogues that he does about Socrates. The only things we know about Socrates are things that Plato wrote down for him, Socrates wasn’t much of a writer. This is why it is interesting to read Plato’s dialogues because he or she gets to see Socrates from a different person’s perspective, an admirer really. This means that when he or she reads Apology they have to take into consideration that Plato …show more content…
Plato shows his respect for Socrates by writing the dialogues so that people in the future could read what he did. He thought he was a great man and mentor and looked up to him in many ways. Socrates offended many people by believing in the oracle, but it wasn’t his fault. It came off as rude that he was telling people that he was the wises, but he was the wisest because he knew what he didn’t know. That is what made him wise. The other scholars of that time believed that they knew everything, so when Socrates told them that he was the wisest they were offended and wanted to prove him wrong. They got mad because they couldn’t answer or explain the questions that Socrates asked him so they tried and succeeded to get him killed. Socrates was a martyr because he died for what he believed in, he didn’t care if people thought he was crazy he cared that he got what he was trying to say to people. He wanted people to think as he did and he loved to ponder open ended questions. Questions that we refer to as “why” questions. He always wondered why. This is what got him killed though. Socrates was a