WORLD HISTORY

World History

Question No. 1

Let's not forget that Socrates was accompanied not only an enthusiastic youth, but also views, full of hatred. Especially those of Socrates hated the Sophists, who art to prove right and made wrong of their profession. As they attempted to kill smug dark and empty of people, then unbearable, and finally, the offender deserves to die. The first half-joking, half serious charge against Socrates was staged in 423. One day in 399 BC, Athenians read exhibited for public discussion, the text: "This accusation is written and sworn testified grind, son Meletii pifeets, against Socrates, the son of the house Sofraniksa Alopeki Socrates was accused that he did not recognize the gods, which recognizes the city, and introduces other new gods. He is accused in the corruption of youth.

The speeches of Socrates to the court, with great artistic power transmitted by Plato, striking that he deliberately and strongly denied all the way to salvation, he walked toward a death sentence. Depriving the life of a wise and noble man, society deprives itself of wisdom and nobility, deprives himself of an enabling force, searching, critical, worrisome thoughts. At the threshold of death of Socrates prophesied that immediately after his death the Athenians suffer a more severe punishment than that which it is punished. Young student of Socrates - Plato, who was present at the trial, experienced such a strong moral upheaval that was seriously ill. Thus was born the first philosophical utopia of "fair "(for its time) the social system. Socrates was sentenced to death under indictment "for the introduction of new gods and for corrupting the youth in a new spirit", that is, for what we now call dissent. In the course of the philosopher, the case was attended by over 500 judges. For the death penalty voted 300 against 200. Socrates had to drink a poison called hemlock. This poison causes paralysis of the endings of motor nerves, apparently, little affecting the cerebral hemispheres. Death occurs from cramps, leading to suffocation. For some reason the execution of Socrates was delayed for 30 days. Friends persuaded the philosopher to escape, but he refused. Socrates' last day was held in enlightened conversation on the immortality of the soul. Socrates confessed to his friends that he is full of joyful hope for the dead, as stated in the old tradition, waiting otherworldly future. Socrates firmly hoping for their fair life after death, he falls into the society of the wise gods and famous people. Death and the fact that it is followed, represent a reward for the life of flour. Arguing in the spirit of the Pythagorean doctrine, Socrates believed that he deserved his death, as the gods, without a will which nothing happens, admitted his conviction.

This allows us to understand the intransigence of Socrates, his unwavering commitment to uphold justice at the cost of living, as he saw it. Socratic case allows us to trace the crime difficult out swing truth, which is part of ...