In Plato’s Apology, Socrates tells the story of his friends Chaerephon’s trip to the oracle at Delphi (where there was a temple where the god Apollo spoke through the Pythia, the high priestess at the temple). Chaerephon asked the oracle “if any man was wiser than [Socrates], and the Pythian replied that no one was wiser” (Apology, p. 3). Why, according to Socrates himself, does the oracle call him wise?

1. In Plato’s Apology, Socrates tells the story of his friends Chaerephon’s trip to the oracle at Delphi (where there was a temple where the god Apollo spoke through the Pythia, the high priestess at the temple). Chaerephon asked the oracle “if any man was wiser than [Socrates], and the Pythian replied that no one was wiser” (Apology, p. 3). Why, according to Socrates himself, does the oracle call him wise?

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