The Trial In Plato's Apology Of Socrates

In Plato’s Apology of Socrates, Socrates is standing on trial in which he is being accused and sentenced for corruption of the youth, and impiety by Meletus. Socrates during the trial presents defense speeches to the jury in order to prove his innocence of these charges. There were three phases of the trial the preface, sentencing, and Socrates speaking to the people. During the sentencing stage Socrates remains lists a number of rulings in which he may face, one being exiled however Socrates could not see this being a possible ruling as he knew he could not escape the youth wanting to listen to his words, and for Socrates he himself knew keeping quiet would not be in his nature, as this is what brought him to being charged in this first place; he was put to death simply due to being a thinker of independent thoughts. The people of Anthes felt Socrates in a way disobeyed them by being wise, and asking many questions when it came to their beliefs and morals. Socrates would see being exiled would lead to an unexamined life thus his statement made “an unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.” In the Chapter “Allegory of the Cave” the representation on this saying is made visually, prisoners were made to look at a wall with shadows leading them to believe that what they
Socrates' chose death in light of this, rather than choosing the option of living his life in exile from Athens, in which he would not be able to speak his thoughts in Athens again. He did not want to be conformed to an unexamined life.Socrates was able to discover the truth by developing a tactic that consists of questioning context from where he sought answers, once he obtained those answers he would be able to poke holes in them so that he would be able to order to apply critical thinking to challenge the answers