What does Platos Apology teach us about Philosophy?
When we come to the word wisdom, many of us would tend to think that it is this magnificent speech with this magnificent vocabulary given by or to people. And now, I believe that most of you might agree with me that wisdom has to do with elders, since they experienced more things in life than young people. But, in Plato’s Apology, when Socrates is making his defense against Meletus about his ‘corrupting the youth,’ Socrates asks if he was ‘corrupting the youth’ around him voluntarily and if he was it would be a lie because he would have been already injured by the ‘evil’ youths who were corrupted by him. Then, he says, “What then Meletus? Are you at your age so much wiser than I at my age, that you have recognized that the evil always do some evil to the nearest then, and the good some good; whereas I have reached such a depth of ignorance that I do not even know this, that if I make anyone of my associates bad I am in danger of getting some harm from him, so that I do this great evil
