He cannot suggest exile, since he would be as dangerous in another city as he is in Athens. Socrates rejects imprisonment or a fine (which he could not pay, because of his poverty) He is not afraid of death, which may in fact be 'good'. Since he does not think himself to be guilty of anything. Socrates proposes a pension for life he cannot honestly propose a self-punishment,

Socrates had expected conviction, but by a larger majority thus he has had a 'moral victory'. The Prosecution proposed the death penalty. Since there was no statutory penalty for the charges on which Socrates had just been convicted, the Prosecution had to propose an appropriate penalty, and the Defense had to make a counterproposal. Socrates asks not for favors but for impersonal justics anything else would be perjury. Socrates will not bring forward his family in an appeal to the emotions On two occasions, when he had to be in politics, he did the unpopular thing for the sake of justice, Socrates' devotion to his work has meant that he is not politically active: his daimon Socrates' death would be an offense against Apollo. Socrates' mission to teach virtue is a great blessing for Athens. Socrates cannot agree to cease his work it would be impiety toward the god. Socrates is acting in obedience to Apollo as an investigator.

Socrates is not afraid of death desertion is dishonor. Young men have listened to Socrates, as he exposed the frauds, but Socrates is not Has been testing this revelation all his life by conversation with the conventionally Socrates is not an atheist: Apollo himself has called Socrates 'wise', and Socrates a professional teacher of the 'political arts') REFUTATION by defining the 'old charges' against him: Socrates says he is not an orator, and at the age of 70 he is too old to learn. insinuating: the Jury must be won over from an established hostility to the Defenseīecause of Socrates' bad reputation, especially because of Aristophanes play, The Clouds. on charges of ‘corrupting the youth’ and ‘believing in gods which the State does not recognize’. The Apology of Socrates purports to be a reconstruction of the defense speeches in Socrates’ trial in 399 B.C.

The trial and death of socrates apology