During trial Socrates declares “I will certainly not stop philosophizing, and I will exhort you and explain this to whomever of you I happen to meet” (Apology 29c). Socrates firmly states that he will continue philosophizing to whomever he meets, but we never see him doing this because he did not want the precarious future that fleeing would imply. Socrates could have continued the spread of his beliefs as fugitive to those people from different places he could have met if he had decided to flee. But once again, his actions did not coincide with his words. As an old man he knew that life out of Athens would have turned out to be despicable and chose death rather than philosophizing somewhere else. Becoming a fugitive was never an option because his sense of self could not stand being targeted as unvirtuous and because he feared a bad
During trial Socrates declares “I will certainly not stop philosophizing, and I will exhort you and explain this to whomever of you I happen to meet” (Apology 29c). Socrates firmly states that he will continue philosophizing to whomever he meets, but we never see him doing this because he did not want the precarious future that fleeing would imply. Socrates could have continued the spread of his beliefs as fugitive to those people from different places he could have met if he had decided to flee. But once again, his actions did not coincide with his words. As an old man he knew that life out of Athens would have turned out to be despicable and chose death rather than philosophizing somewhere else. Becoming a fugitive was never an option because his sense of self could not stand being targeted as unvirtuous and because he feared a bad