This is very much the way Socrates himself apologized in the death scene (read it at http://san.beck.org/Phaedo.html#1 ). Also silly (IMO) but consistent with his beliefs.
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> So, as death is necessary for a dualistic philosopher, and as
> exile from
> the group is an option which suggests independence (and
> independence is
> materialistic-- or supports a philosophy of independent OBJECTIVE
> existence); so perhaps, the environment conspired to give Socrates the
> end he required to fulfill his own prophecy (choosing suicide rather
> than social exclusion for him since Socrates' own existence would be
> contingent on humanistic/ subjective confirmation according to his own
> life-story).
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