Four Socratic Maxims:  Relation to the charges.  Picture of the life of tending to the soul.

• Wisdom is, in truth, worth nothing at all.  Oracle, poets, politicians. .
• No one willingly does evil to himself.  Ethical determinism.
• The unexamined life is not worth living.  Merely living is not enough.  Prefers an honorable death to an inauthentic existence.
• No evil can happen to a good man in life or after death.  Influence on the stoics.   Nothingness, transmigration.  Evil does not happen to someone, but is what one does or allows others to do.  True evil is not an affliction, but how one lets events affect him.

• Aristophanes.  "Makes the worse argument the stronger."
• Delphic Oracle.
• Later accusers.  Anytus and Meletus.  Corruption and atheism.

• No evil voluntarily.
• Atheism and various gods

• Not abandon philosophy - gods to be obeyed above all.  1) Has a duty to self, god, state.  2) All things have a function. Unique function of human being is to deploy reason well.
• Proposal of penalty = admit guilt.  1) Prytaneum - public benefactor.  Exile.  Maxim 2.  Philosophical and religious obligation are the same.
• Public benefactor, one mina.

•   No one would rather be harmed than benefitted
•   No one willingly does evil to himself.

• If acquitted will not cease.  The gods have commanded him.  "The unexamined life is not worth living."
• Not guilty of harming the young.
• Benefactor
•    No exile.
•    Proposal of a Fine
•    Characteristics of death
•  A good man cannot be harmed in life or after death.

Concluding Observation:  Reconcile the meaning and purpose of life.
    Life has meaning, punctuated by an element of futility.
    Futility - Human wisdom is worth little or nothing.  The striving for knowledge, truth, and understanding is futile, incomplete, and partial.  One will never approximate the wisdom of the god.  How can one reconcile meaningfulness and futility?  Ideas are guides of  conduct that we will never perfectly attain.