What Does Socrates Mean By Calling Me The Wisest

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Apolgoy Socrates is very well known in the Athens community for several of things he is known for being an influential part of the young people in Athens lives. Which was seen to be a negative thing. Socrates is facing the death penalty, he is accused of being a criminal and also for meddling in matters where he has no business to be in “He makes the worst cases look better” for this he is guilty. Throughout his whole statement to not receive the death penalty he just proves there points, even more, he does not even really deny his charges. He tries to make it seem as though he is more educated and more prestigious than everyone around him. Even with his statement “So what does he mean by calling me the wisest? He can't be telling a lie” What Socrates is implying in this statement is if someone makes an opinionated …show more content…
Yes, he does say he is not wise but if he really believed that he would not be going out trying to find the wisest person to out wise him. Instead of really pleading his case he instead did the total opposite he proved everyone right about his personality that got him to where he was right now. It was more like him trying to justify his actions even with his statement “I'll try to show you what has led people to talk and accuse me” In this statement, he is informing the audience of how he got in this situation. Even though that is the exact behavior of how he got in this situation. Socrates is showing excuses for why he does the things that he does instead of owning up to his mistakes. He was explaining the situation almost as if he is trying to dumb everything down for the jurors like they do not understand everything that is going on already since they are some of the people that prosecuted him. Socrates