There was a man that had nothing to offer people but his
wisdom. This man got great pride out of teaching others what he knew. This
man that many people of his time despised so much for his beliefs, that they
wanted him gone from their community for good. This man was Socrates.
Were the men of this community afraid of change? Where all the poets,
politicians, artisans, and judges scared that Socrates' way of beliefs were right
Socrates was a poor common man who had nothing of value and
nothing to gain by giving his knowledge to those who wanted more for there
life and, to those who would just sit and listen to what he had to say about life.
Socrates was the kind of man that believed you were better off fulfilling your
soul, rather than filling your pockets with money or buying foolish things. To
Socrates knowledge was power. Whoever had the knowledge held the power.
These men of Socrates' time were afraid that Socrates was the true man of all
the knowledge, and they did not want a man like him in their community
teaching their children. Socrates was the kind of man that did not take
anything for his teachings. Socrates thought that his payment would be that
his followers learned what he was teaching, and that was payment enough for
Socrates. Socrates knew that when you left him you were a semi-educated
person, and that you would go out and for fill your destiny.
Socrates had many enemies that he acquired throughout his life.
Men wanted to see Socrates killed for believing in the same Gods, but for
believing in them in a different way. They say that his teachings were
evildoings to others, and he had no business teaching anybody anything that
he knew. Meletus accused Socrates of "corrupting youths, and he searches
into things under the earth and in heaven, and he makes the worse appear the
better cause; and...