Arete

Socrates easily demonstrated arête because he thought and spoke outside of what he was told. By not sticking to religion and beliefs he changed history, now someone else might have figured it out later in time but that still would have changed things in the future. Also Socrates resembles having strength and being brave, for truly speaking his own thoughts about the town of Athens. I loved that he didn’t care if he was put to death, he did what was on his mind and wasn’t band wagoner. Though excellences is usually graded by other people, it took until hundredths of year later when intelligences reached a different level to understand. Meaning that Socrates set a new standard of excellence, which people could not get to in till father down the scale of evolution. But we can’t just call all the other towns people of Athens utterly stupid, they just went along with what they were told. Socrates was just a man born into the wrong time period.