The Justification Of Virtue In The Apology By Socrates

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In “The Apology” by Aristotle, Socrates has two sets of accusers that he has to refute at his trial. The first set of accusers are those like Aristophanes, who wrote about Socrates in his play “The Clouds”. Socrates states that the first accusers say that Socrates was a man that studied the natural world and was a Sophist. To refute these claims, Socrates recalls a time that he talked to a man who paid a Sophist to educate his sons. The type of education they were receiving was on human wisdom, so Socrates was “amazed” to hear of someone so smart. Yet, according to the Delphi, an oracle of the gods, says that Socrates is the wisest man. After asking many self-proclaimed professionals, Socrates realizes these people aren’t aware that they know nothing. He comes to the conclusion that he is devout to the gods by setting out to see if the Delphi is right, and those that have accused him have accused him of what they don’t know. …show more content…
Both accusations Socrates refutes by putting Meletus on the stand and methodically questioning Meletus until he contradicts himself. First of all, Meletus says that the majority of people in the courtroom help the youth and Socrates is the one that corrupts them. Socrates says that can’t be true because only few should correctly know how to support the youth. Also, there is no way that Socrates could purposely corrupt people so close to him because nobody in the right mind would want to be harmed by those that they corrupted. Secondly, Socrates gets Meletus to say that Socrates doesn’t believe in the gods, yet believes in them. In short, Socrates says that this is not possible and and so Meletus’ accusations are
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