In the Apology, Socrates said that a good person does what he knows to be right despite negative personal consequences.
Socrates was a philosopher in Athens who questioned the prevailing beliefs of his time. Due to this, he was charged with impiety and corrupting the youth, and sentenced to death. The Apology contains his speech before he drank the hemlock.
Socrates argues that when considering a course of action, the solely important question is whether one would be acting justly or not. Justice trumps considerations of life and death.
He argued that since he was tasked to philosophize by none other than Apollo himself, he cannot abandon his post no more than a good soldier could abandon his post in battle.
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