One of the reasons why Socrates was arrested was because he was being accused of corrupting the minds of the students he taught. I personally feel that it is almost impossible for one person to corrupt the thoughts and feelings of a whole group of people. Improvement comes form a minority and corruption comes from the majority. Socrates is one man and represents the minority; therefore it is less likely the youth have been corrupted by Socrates than by some larger group of people such as the e

ducators, council members, or jurymen. After the prosecution finished presenting its side, the defense had a chance to respond to the charges. The Apology begins with the defense speech by Socrates. He began by noting that he was unfamiliar with the law court since he spent most of the time in the agora. He observed that he really had two sets of accusers (old and new) and that he feared the old accusers more so he would deal with them first. He responded to the charges of the old accusers by telling a story about the oracle of Delphi. He then turned to Meletus' charge of corrupting the youth and impiety. Socrates described his important mission to Athens and compared himself to a gadfly. He concluded his defense by discussing his integrity, his followers, and his family. In my opinion, Socrates was not guilty of the corruption of the youth of Athens. Socrates was a traveling teacher and talked and challenged everyone he met. Socrates taught the art of persuasive speaking. He did not charge people money like most of the other Sophists did, but he did have similar beliefs as the Sophists. Sophists thought that our minds are cut off from reality and that we are stuck in our own opinions of what the world was like. Socrates believed that reason or nature could not tell us why the world is the way it appears. The Sophists' point of view is best summed up as this: we can never step out of the way things appear. We are all stuck in our own li

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