Apology Questions

1. Socrates faces two charges.  One is impiety and the other charge is corrupting the young.

2. To defend himself, he first states that the charges against him were very old-made when the accusers were only children and were swayed very easily.  He says that he speaks in the way he wants and should be able to.  He has to defend against two classes of accusers, the older ones and newer ones.

3. He doesn't secure his own acquittal because, I believe, he wants to be proven innocent by the others.  If he's not, then that's the way it goes.

4. Yes, throughout his life, he had been living how he had preached.  He wanted to speak how he wanted and live how he wanted.  He lived it through his life and up until his death.  His voice for the wise and not the many was how he lived.

5. Yes there can be.  If someone is willing to live out their beliefs and die for them, I think it can be good, in a way.  People will always look at them as someone who lived out their beliefs and that can be good.

6. I think he believes himself to be very wise since he was calling himself the voice of the wise.  He called himself that because he was very educated and could speak for those who were also very educated and wise.  I believe he sees himself at the same level or a little higher than the others.

7. For Socrates, maybe yes.  he knew or felt that he was going to be found guilty.  He believed that he should die for them.  For myself, I don't think I'd die on the spot for them.  If I was in a situation like Cassie during Columbine, I'd say yes.  If I didn't I would've died not saying what I truly believed.