>>23327859
Socrates made a bold honest refutation of the crimes he was accused of and was sentenced to death when he could have gotten a lesser charge had he acted as he was expected too

>>23327875
Why didn't he get a lawyer? Was he stupid?

>>23327883
he wanted to represent himself because of personal convictions i suppose. he was already a very old man and perhaps didnt care anymore.

>>23327859
apologise

>>23327901
Why didn't he apologize if the title of the book is "Apology"?

He did nothing wrong tho why does he have to apologise :(

>the right thing to do is to let my enemies win

Was he retarded?

>>23327859
>For if a person were to select the night in which his sleep was undisturbed even by dreams, and were to compare with this the other days and nights of his life, and then were to tell us how many days and nights he had passed in the course of his life better and more pleasantly than this one, I think that any man, I will not say a private man, but even the great king, will not find many such days or nights, when compared with the others. Now if death is like this, I say that to die is gain; for eternity is then only a single night.

>>23327859
I'm sorry.

>>23328573
Except he could only know it was pleasant after he woke up...

>>23328598
>What would not a man give if he might converse with Orpheus and Musaeus and Hesiod and Homer? Nay, if this be true, let me die again and again. I, too, shall have a wonderful interest in a place where I can converse with Palamedes, and Ajax the son of Telamon, and other heroes of old, who have suffered death through an unjust judgment; and there will be no small pleasure, as I think, in comparing my own sufferings with theirs. Above all, I shall be able to continue my search into true and false knowledge; as in this world, so also in that; I shall find out who is wise, and who pretends to be wise, and is not. What would not a man give, O judges, to be able to examine the leader of the great Trojan expedition; or Odysseus or Sisyphus, or numberless others, men and women too! What infinite delight would there be in conversing with them and asking them questions! For in that world they do not put a man to death for this; certainly not. For besides being happier in that world than in this, they will be immortal, if what is said is true.

>>23328386
it comes from Greek, it really means the defense of Socrates