Max

While written by Plato, with uncertainty concerning the validity of the statement on Socrates’s behalf, “Apology” represents an acute denial of the oligarch; whose means are compared to that of a potential Hobbesian-Greek political body, without the branches the Western world relies on. Here we see the Leviathan that is the Greek city-state of Athens—Having once been a democratic state in the life of Socrates—upholding its purpose as a government to produce a working system with theocratic hierarchies ruled by those who have garnered political; militaristic; economic; and religious power. Socrates was a cog in the machine and he was treated as such; with a respectable defiance to that which does not do him any good or evil, for death is not a punishment unto him.