Alright so Apology is full of Socrates's refutation of false accusations against him based on hearsay and a lot of other false evidence against him. He is acting as his own lawyer without council. He obviously is not successful in his own self-defense, because the verdict delivered against him is as guilty, and he is sentenced to be executed and then drinks hemlock to commit suicide; to teach Athenians a lesson: that they allowed an egregious injustice to take place and it's a bad mark on the history of Athenian justice, which persist to this day... The reason that he doesn't flee with his friend to Thesaly is that he feels he has an obligation to obey the laws of the city state and why obligation? He fears against foreign aggressors. In other words, he feels that one would destroy the city state if one refused to obey their laws and refuse to go by the verdict of the courts, because Athens has not only educated him as a child but also provided and continues to maintain a military to protect him and all other Athenian citizens against foreign aggression. There has been an irrational tendency to see a parallel between the unjust condemnation of Sorates and the prosecution of Jesus by Pilot. Copyright 2011, by Nicholas Van Vactor
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