at God would have thought of him. To Socrates there was no excuse to be a disgrace in his Gods eyes. Greek society and Socrates both had very different examples of the virtuous man. In Greek society the polis and peers deemed whether a man was virtuous or not. However, in Socrates view the only kind of person who would be named virtuous was one who was able to follow Gods order without question. Hence, society believed they where able to create themselves virtuous, but in the eyes of Socrates God was the only one who was able to reward a person of virtuousness. Ways society judged virtuousness was by the mans ability to fight, maintain control of his household, and worshiping his ancestors and the polis Gods. These virtues where not important to Socrates, because he believed in himself and his morals. Things Socrates did that God deemed moral was the way in which Socrates measured his own virtues. I think Socrates was correct; it should not matter what a persons peers think but only what God thinks, because when the time comes Gods judgement is the only one that really matters. ...
