2PHILOSOPHY OF SOCRATES
With regard to the answering of the question dealing with the meaning being implied by the
chosen statement and the reasons being asserted by Socrates in the piece of writing titled the
Apology of Socrates, it can be said that Socrates was trying to imply that the practice of self
introspection and the gathering of more knowledge and wisdom must be cultivated more by the
Greeks in order to maintain the greatness of the civilization that the Greeks were, which
unfortunately the Greeks had tended to given up on2. The insular position which the Greeks had
rendered themselves into could be discerned from the fact that the Greeks were too much
engrossed in wars amongst themselves, the Peloponnesian war for example among the Greek
City States had caused not only caused huge financial losses for the Greek City States but had
also caused the political integrity among the Greeks to get liquidated rendering the vulnerable to
the foreign invasion and eventually the once Great Civilization, the Greek Civilization had
eventually experienced a downfall. The Greek race had grown quite egoistic and were
overwhelmed with the idea that non were greater than them which was a false assumption as the
world beyond the archipelago forming Greece had developed way more advanced mechanisms
of warfare and had also revamped upon building up the economic set up and that had given the
other empires quite a lot of advantage over the mighty Greek empire. The basic idea that
Socrates was hinting at was that Greece needed wise political leadership who shall be
knowledgeable and wise at the same time to deal with the situation of political and economic
crisis that Greece had been goaded into, and for that Greece needed to reconcile itself to the truth
that prevailed in the world and its potential to jeopardize the stability of the mighty Greek
civilization3.
2 Sacks, David, Oswyn Murray, and Lisa R. Brody. Encyclopedia of the ancient Greek world. Infobase Publishing,
2014.
3 Sacks, David, Oswyn Murray, and Lisa R. Brody. Encyclopedia of the ancient Greek world. Infobase Publishing,
2014.

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