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The Trial and Death of Socrates: With 32-page introduction, footnotes and Stephanus references by F.C. Church, translator (Aziloth Books)

The Trial and Death of Socrates: With 32-page introduction, footnotes and Stephanus references by F.C. Church, translator (Aziloth Books)

Plato

Paperback

PhilosophyBiographies GeneralAncient Greece

ISBN10: 1911405187
ISBN13: 9781911405184
Publisher: Aziloth Books
Published: Nov 6 2016
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

In 399 B.C., Socrates was tried for religious and political crimes: refusing to recognise the gods of Athens, introducing new deities, and corrupting the youth. The verdict was guilty as charged, the penalty - death by poisoning.

Despite growing up in Greece's Golden Age of liberalism and democracy, Socrates was not a democrat. Influencing young men with his idea that people needed direction from wise men rather than self-government, was likely perceived as a threat to the cherished Athenian republic. Socrates likened himself to a gadfly stinging the lazy horse of Athens and did this with zeal, believing his God-assigned purpose was to expose false wisdom as ignorance. Awareness of one's ignorance was a key first step towards true wisdom or virtue, he declared, emphasising that although he, too, was ignorant, he knew it. And that, he argued, was the reason the oracle of Delphi proclaimed there was no man wiser than Socrates. Little wonder, then, that egos were pricked and enemies made.

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