Personal Responsibility In Socrates The Apology

What classifies humans as being the most intellectual above all other animals? Perhaps it is our ability to marvel and contemplate about the unknown wonders of life. In Plato’s The Apology, Socrates states that the unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates, being one of the original fathers of philosophy, firmly believed that humans were solely created to inquire. If people were incapable of possessing curiosity, then they would be no different than other animals. Socrates’s profound statement relays that personal responsibilities distort the need to examine daily life, a lack of knowledge may lead to certain demises, and refusal of finding purpose ultimately stunts philosophical growth.
With time, individuals gradually develop roles

Socrates’s question emphasizes that the desire to improve a personal role overshadows the regardment of the structural foundation of the role. In other words, people are overly determined to progress in their own self-potential, that they forget the reason why they are doing what they do. Subsequently, people continue life without stopping to deeply investigate their responsibilities, neglecting and trampling over the opportunity to inquire. The result of this neglect is what produces a hollow and unaware society of individuals. Hence, a society in which unawareness is abundant is a vulnerable society. Higher heads of authority (such as government) benefit by preferring a populace of obedient members of society as opposed to members who question them. Coincidentally, an obedient mass is less likely to bring forth conflict for these authoritative heads. Much like the Athenian society in which Socrates lived in, the government was content with the Athenian citizens who had minimal motivation to ponder about the laws

A person enlightened by thinking sees a glass half full rather than half empty. To illustrate this more clearly, the fear of death is a common fear among the majority of people. In addition, people fear what is unknown. Marrying these two concepts together, it can strongly be assumed that people fear death because they have not the vaguest idea about the afterlife that follows it. Socrates suggests that death may either be an eternal slumber of the soul, which would be no different than living an unexamined physical life, or a realm of cultivating of insight. A wise man is not wise at all when thinks that the true end of living is death (Plato). People who worry constantly about their deaths ultimately live the entirety of their lives in dissatisfaction because they lead unexamined lives. Taking on another perspective, mistakes derive from lacking knowledge. However, it is up to the individual to decide whether or not their flaws make or break them. One with more optimism is bound to apprehend from those imperfections and cultivate their lifestyle. One with more pessimism is bound to injure their self-esteem and fall into