Why Is Socrates Not Wise

When the Oracle of Delphi told Socrates that he was the wisest man he didn’t believe it. To him, there had to be some kind of mistake, surely there was many more wise people in Athens. To prove his belief, Socrates decided to go and search for someone who was indeed wiser than he. He went around the city confronting people of high status but there wasn’t a single person that was proving to be wiser. In fact, they were noticing that Socrates was indeed wise. He first went with a politician " who had the reputation of wisdom." As they began to converse Socrates noticed he really wasn't all that wise as the people and the politician himself believed. Since the politician believed he was wise but really wasn’t Socrates really knew he wasn’t wise because at least he knew he wasn’t wise. After examining the politician he went to a poets of all sort but they all had the same diagnostic, that they weren't wise. Socrates said, "I found that the men most in repute were all but the most foolish; and that some inferior men were really wiser and better."
As he went along in search for that one
He knew that both charges were phony, that they had no evidence or logic. He says,"You have put this into the indictment because you had nothing real of which to accuse me." He mentioned that it's illogical for him to believe in demigods but not the gods themselves; parents of demigods. He also uses the example of believing in the mule but being accused of not believing in the horse or a mule. Examples of believing in human things but not in human beings as well as an example of believing in flute-playing but not in flute-players were used to show that he was innocent. There wasn’t evidence or logic to prove otherwise. He was brief in his defense because they weren't backed up. He said, I have said enough in answer to the charge of Meletus: any elaborate defense is