arge of notbelieving in Gods while believing in higher divinities. The charge, he shows howludicrous was indeed in nature since how can anyone believe in flute playing and not theflute player (Plato, pg-457). How can one believe in spiritual and divine agencies, and notin spirits or demigods? But ultimately Socrates defense is his self-lessness. He attributes his deeds to hisduty towards God. He makes it clear that the obligation to truth is far more closer to Godthan any other social one that is marked by malice. His poverty, his unchanging andimpartial ways that he followed all his life to search for the truth and when having foundit, give it to others without taking into consideration what the government in powerwould say or do about it in itself is an evidence and a virtue that rises above all others toprove him innocent. His defense is simple and artless because it is the truth, within whichsome more properties emerge. One of these can be identified as the simplicity of truthand the other is its universality. Truly, although several impugn Socrates of wrong-doingand misguiding the youth, he was not the first or the last one tried on such a charge. Thispoints to the nature of truth to be unchanging. Despite all the advances a society mayclaim to having made, or convince its citizens to look at things with a perspectivebeneficial to the state, one can see why immutability so much moved the likes of Platoand Aristotle. The metaphysics of Socrates is soft dualism, since he acknowledges the materialworld and its role towards the transcendent, God. The epistemology is moderate realismwhere sensible world is knowable and knowledge of transcendent-intelligible realityinferred from sense knowledge of physical world. The ethics are of Natural Law wherethe sense world is valued as ordered to the spiritual realm. The philosophy of HumanNature is soul-body dualism where both: human body and soul are acknowledged.Although Socrates seems to consi...
