Analysis Of Socrates The Apology

In “The Apology”, Socrates is being accused of not following the religion that time the law believes he should follow. Those accusers accused Socrates that he is an atheist and that is bad for Athenian and people who live there. They low put Socrates in front of a trial, so that he is able to explain to judge why he doesn't believe in same God that others believe. During the trial period, Socrates explains how they there have been old accusers that say Socrates is an evildoer and a curious person who is destroying the Athenian with his outstanding knowledge. His defense was started by saying that those accusers are lying, and he is going to prove it in the court. He takes permission from the jury to confess him to talk alike as he talks always.

He is 70 years old and never been to court so he is unaware of the manner of court. Therefore, he demands not judging his manner of dialect, rather his accusation is true or not true. He is a man with a good reputation with regular activeness. He states that, Choreophon who is his friends, went to an Oracle as well asked him if there are any wiser than Socrates and he replied that there wasn't. Towards the end, he takes interview of politicians, craftsman as well poet's those who taught are wise. After the interview, he concluded that nobody is wiser. They are wise, therefore, they had well reputation but Socrates taught that they showed they knew lots of things but actually they didn't. As a result, those people don't like him and be hateful against him, because he should others are unwise. Therefore, he thinks it is his responsibility to let them know that all they think are wise but they are not. Those young people follow him and want to gain knowledge from Socrates. In court Socrates also mention that he is not afraid of death. In fact, he believes that there is none who knows sufficient about death to be scared of it. It could be never ending sleep, so he could meet other people who are already dead, and it would be thrilled. Therefore, he thinks he has done anything wrong and he doesn't count on death, he only counts on what good deeds he has done.
The below quote contains a significant meaning to me because I can agree with Socrates that do not count on death because it's unavoidable, rather consider what good things you have done. I also believe, intelligent people do not account for the result of the good acts they have done. They only think how they could improve their surrounding by doing something that others will be benefited by them with their knowledge. The quote relates to the “Apoogy” because it shows how Socrates was careless about life after the convicted him to death.
"Someone will say: And are you not ashamed, Socrates, of a course of life which is likely to bring
you to an untimely end? To him I may fairly answer: There you are mistaken: a man who is good
for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider
whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong - acting the part of a good man or of a bad.”
[ Plato, 399 BC: page 17]

The importance of the quote is that it was his main principal.

Socrates shows his death penalty because whatever he has nothing harm anybody or he never forced anyone so that they will follow what he thinks is right from his best knowledge. He also thinks, there are two types of morality which totally depends on people mentality. Furthermore, he stated that the novel man encourages you to do well. On the other hand, there are evil people, who always try to find something poison on a good thing. Therefore, they want to hunt you down for the good thing that you have done. So that, you would not gain better reputation than them. They could go as far as they need to make sure that you would not reach to your destination. For example, one Bangladeshi American engineer, blogger, an atheist was hacked to death because of his belief and scientific writing last year. Before he was threatened by extremists and they warned him if he ever visited Bangladesh than he will be dead. However, the writers wrote on his blogs that he never write that he doesn't explain why he believe that and he can talk face to face those who think he is bad for society. Nevertheless, the extremist don't accept his challenge and unfortunately, he was murdered when he went to book fair in Bangladesh but his wife was lucky enough to survive. In fact, I think he was not worried about his life. He just wanted to show us that do not believe unless you have experienced that exact thing. But what we have seen that after he was murdered, people were more curious that they wanted to know what he had written that made other people angry towards him. That time all his book were sold out. From that point, I think that writer is not physically living but his good works still exist in our world as well people will remind him of those things he had explained to us. So, all you need, When you have done something for the society that you think is good, all you need to be careful on that whatever you are doing is

ethically right and not harmful. Then you do not need to think about the result of it. That why I chose that quote because I think Socrates was trying to tell that he had not done anything wrong. Therefore, he did not fear his own death.
Hence, unveiling the truth and escaping evil, I think Socrates speculates dead as an ethical deed. I would agree with him that he believes about searching the truth, not the bad things. For that reason, he revealed the eagerness to face anything even dead. For the truth, by not blaming whatever he had spoken or fulfilled in his lifetime.
Finally, I think when we make up our mind, how to breathing our liveliness, what consider to be vital is not even if a method would reach more or less likely which someone may harm us. All we need to count that the principal should be good and virtuous. To support that idea, he gives an example of war heroes those who lost their liveliness for a devoted cause. That reminds me a different type of example as well. Martin Luther King Jr. committed most of his life to fighting for the Americans civil rights. Although it was sad but I believe that his motive was admirable one even though, after all, it leads to an end of his life. I think it is a similar idea that claimed by Socrates. Throughout “the Apology”, I would say Socrates try to teach us a lesson that it would be shameful to agree with those accusations they put on him for the sake of preventing his death. Therefore, at the end, he points out that, there would be no reason to be panic for his dead because whatever action he convinced to do that would not never affect anybody negatively. That reminds me that quote and also agree with Steve Jobs about dead that “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already a naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” I think Socrates thought that he did not teach anything wrong. Therefore, he was not afraid of death. As long as you have done anything wrong except good, one-day people will realize that it was the wrong decision made that time and you will be remembered by all over the world because of your good work.