Socrates did not aim for active public work. He led the life of the philosopher: he lived unpretentiously, but had leisure. All his time Socrates devoted to philosophical conversations and disputes. He had many students, but didn't take any money for his teachings.

While testing others on wisdom, Socrates doesn't consider himself wise at all; in his opinion, wisdom applies only to the god. If the person believes that he has answers to all questions, such person is worthless for philosophy because there is no need for him to puzzle over searches of the truest concepts. All his truths are actually a collection of the most poor, flat representations of narrow-minded knowledge.

After the overthrow of tyranny and restoration of democracy in Athens, Socrates was accused of not believing in gods, entering new deities, and of corrupting the youth of Athens. In reply to these accusations, Socrates has presented the defending speech in which he denied the accusations put forward against him. This great speech contains in Plato's "Apology". In t

Socrates stays in prison because he's wise and has knowledge, and by staying in the jail, he has done the right virtuous thing; he has acted justly.

The issue of primary importance for Socrates was ethics, living a good life. Socrates said: "Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued".

In the discussion of Socrates' theory of virtue in "Republic", it is clear that he considered virtue to be an excellence of the soul. Therefore, as the soul has several components, there will be many components of its excellence. The excellence of reason is wisdom, of the passions, courage, and of the spirit, temperance. The survival of the whole depends on each one performing their functions properly. Justice is sticking to one's role, doing one's own work and not interfering with others. When all the three agree that among them the reason alone should rule, there is justice within the individual.

Socrates' statement, expressing his moral philosophy was "virtue is knowledge." He believed that the main cause of the evil that men do was ignorance regarding the good life. He believed that through the right development of the mind in its pursuit of truth, beauty and goodness that the goal and purpose of human life can be achieved.

Socrates was supposed to be executed at once, but on the eve of the trial the ship with annual religious mission left Athens. Before the returning of the ship, all executions were forbidden by customs. Thus, Socrates had to spent thirty days in prison before execution. In the early morning of the execution day, Socrates' old friend Crito came to Socrates and informed him that all guards are bribed and Socrates can run. In a dialogue with Crito, Socrates considers the proposal, trying to establish whether an act like that would be just and morally justified. Eventually, he comes to argue that by rejecting his sentence and by trying to escape from prison he would commit unjust and morally unjustified acts. Socrates believes that it is necessary to obey the established laws. And, though, he was condemned unfairly, the laws should be honored. Therefore, he decides to accept his death penalty and execution. Because of his decision, he became one of the out of the ordinary figures in the history of philosophy, a man of undamaged moral truthfulness who had made his final decision according to the very same principles that guided his entire life. We learn all this from Plato's dialogue "Crito".

Now let's look more deeply into the basic questions Socrates was trying to answer: what is a good life and what is justice?

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