Through an examination of The Apology, we learn much about not only the life that Socrates led but also about who Socrates was as a unique person in the time in which he lived. In The Apology, Plato recounts dialogue from Socrates’ trial in which he is sentenced to death. During this trial, Socrates is defending himself against two main sets of charges, which are set in writing by Meletus, one of his prosecutors. The …showed first 75 words of 2020 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2020 total…Socrates was in his later years. Quite possibly, this was a premeditated suicide of sorts in which Socrates would make himself a martyr. Socrates held a tremendous belief in the search for truth and a great contempt for peoples’ misguided conceit in their own wisdom. At this point in his life, he perhaps found that his desire to make the court aware of their unstable beliefs overshadowed any fear of death his prosecution would bring.