Questions on Apology, Crito, & Phaedo1) Socrates famously stated that knowledge is virtue Once an individual truly knows what goodness is, one will not willingly act against it. He claimed that it is impossible for someone to deliberately act wrongly, that when they do they do so because they do not know any better. What could have led him to make this necessary connection between knowing the good (knowledge) and living in accordance with it (virtue)? - Socrates believes that it is not in human nature to do bad, it is only done out of ignorance and not out of the intentions to do evil. I think he was able to make this connection because he was able to establish early on that all human actions were driven by self- interest. In other words, people put their selfish desires before everything else and hence are not able to recognize that their actions are wrong/bad. 2) Why is Socrates considered by the oracle at Delphi to have been the wisest man in Athens? How did he distinguish himself from other learned individuals of his time?- He is considered the wisest man in Athens because he is the only one who