Summary of Socrates' Apology

The Socrates' Apology It is a work written by Plato consisting of a dialogue that he does Socrates in the trial to which he is brought accused of not believing in any god, of turning the weakest argument into the strongest, of being a skilled orator, and of corrupting the youth.
Socrates he begins his defense by addressing the jury and all the Athenians, claiming to ignore the impression, that what was said by his accusers, has left in the present and asked to be allowed to show that nothing said was in accordance with the reality.
Socrates he made it clear that he would not use elaborate words or beautiful speeches to convince them to acquit him, defending above all truth and justice.
The first accusation that, Socrates, stops to analyze is that of the skilled speaker, assuring that if for their accusers to be a speaker who adheres to the truth is to be a skilled speaker, then he would have no qualms about accepting that he was a speaker but never in the sense that his own accusers would. They are.

Having made it clear how he would defend himself, Socrates He continued to remember the first accusations of which he was a victim, accusations that built the bad reputation that he had before many of the present, who had heard those rumors when they were only children or adolescents, ages in which the human being is more manipulable.
Socrates He went on to classify his accusers into the old and the recent, and asked that he be allowed to begin by disproving the accusations made by the older, and This is how he began his defense of the accusation that he was able to turn the weakest argument into a very strong one, and he said he did not know anything or little about those issues and I challenge the audience to find out about what he was talking about and present the results of his research in order to check what he was saying the truth.

Socrates He went ahead with his monologue assuring that he was not like the sophists, that he was not wandering the streets with the intention of educate people or charge for sharing his knowledge and that although he found it beautiful that there was someone who dedicated his life to teach and fascinate the inhabitants of all the cities they passed through, but he was not one of them, he did not ask for money or gratitude from no one.

Socrates He went on to assure that the spice of wisdom he possessed was what had led him to be the object of endless accusations so far from reality, but that his wisdom was completely human.

He began to relate the story, in which his friend Cherephon appeared before the Oracle of Delphi and questioned him if there was another man in the world wiser than Socrates and the Oracle replied that no, there was no one wiser than him, upon learning of that, Socrates undertook the task of discovering what the god wanted say with that and began by approaching all those people who were considered by others, and by themselves, wise men, the first were the politicians, there, Socrates He discovered that those who claimed to be wise and were recognized as such, were not really, who boasted of something they were not and by letting them know he earned the enmity of many.

When he finished with the politicians, he went to where the poets, and later with the artisans, with both of them history repeated itself, as did the Politicians, poets and artisans presumed to be wiser than they really were, they believed that by knowing and knowing how to do their profession, they believed they knew everything, in all matters, something that Socrates found petulant and obscured any knowledge they could own.

After that investigation, Socrates He made endless enemies, but discovered that God spoke the truth, that he was wiser than all of them because he was able to recognize that the truth was that he knew nothing.

Making the above clear, Socrates He went on to defend himself against the accusation made by Meletos, who claimed that Socrates he corrupted the youth by not recognizing the gods of the city, and to do so, Socrates requested that Meletos himself, who had always refused to dialogue with him, answer some questions, the answers given by Meletos led to Socrates to conclude that it was not he who corrupted the young and that if he did, he did so involuntarily, so he was able to verify that Meletos was wrong or lied in that regard.

Regarding him not believing in the gods of the city, Soothe yourselfhe s proved that to believe in geniuses and divinities was to believe in gods.

Socrates he was found guilty and assured that he was not afraid of death, that in fact, he would rather die than live without being able to do what the gods had put him there for; Socrates defended until the last moment that he was a just man and that he preferred to pay the worst of punishments before being unfaithful to his thoughts.