The Trial Of Socrates: The Trials Of Socrates
The trial of Socrates
This essay is an interpretation of the accusations against Socrates during his trial.
Socrates was a Greek philosopher born in 470 BCE. He believed that philosophical system was the value of human knowledge. He would rather die than live and not to be allowed to teach and practice Philosophy and convincing people that the things that are worth it to be valued in life were wisdom, truth and the improvement of the soul as an opposed to money, honour and reputation. 1
In 399 BCE, after the Peloponnesian War in which Athens was defeated by Sparta, a time when Greece was one of the greatest powers in the Ancient World with its tradition of the Poetic Education, in which the virtue of the Warrior Culture and reasoning without …show more content…
He believed in the improvement of the soul. He would persuade his listeners to believe in the great improvement of the soul, wisdom and truth, instead of money, honour and reputation and that the virtue did not come from money, but money would come from virtue and every other good of man. These thoughts contradicted the virtue of men at war taught by the poets.
The charge of corrupting the young was based on what he believed and did all his life: asking questions to anyone who would listen, probing their answers for weakness, examining their logic and attempting to arrive at the truth and that is what his pupils would learn. They were taught how to think for themselves, not to be influenced by any power and not to believe in the “truths” that were imposed to them without questioning and analysing all the most relevant material. By that they were apt to engage in philosophical debate, and yet to identify the pretenders of wisdom by themselves. And like Socrates, that is what they did. They went to every men who pretended to possess knowledge and cross-examined them, coming to the conclusion that they knew nothing. “Consequently their victims became annoyed not with themselves, but with Socrates”. (Plato, 1993) pg
This essay is an interpretation of the accusations against Socrates during his trial.
Socrates was a Greek philosopher born in 470 BCE. He believed that philosophical system was the value of human knowledge. He would rather die than live and not to be allowed to teach and practice Philosophy and convincing people that the things that are worth it to be valued in life were wisdom, truth and the improvement of the soul as an opposed to money, honour and reputation. 1
In 399 BCE, after the Peloponnesian War in which Athens was defeated by Sparta, a time when Greece was one of the greatest powers in the Ancient World with its tradition of the Poetic Education, in which the virtue of the Warrior Culture and reasoning without …show more content…
He believed in the improvement of the soul. He would persuade his listeners to believe in the great improvement of the soul, wisdom and truth, instead of money, honour and reputation and that the virtue did not come from money, but money would come from virtue and every other good of man. These thoughts contradicted the virtue of men at war taught by the poets.
The charge of corrupting the young was based on what he believed and did all his life: asking questions to anyone who would listen, probing their answers for weakness, examining their logic and attempting to arrive at the truth and that is what his pupils would learn. They were taught how to think for themselves, not to be influenced by any power and not to believe in the “truths” that were imposed to them without questioning and analysing all the most relevant material. By that they were apt to engage in philosophical debate, and yet to identify the pretenders of wisdom by themselves. And like Socrates, that is what they did. They went to every men who pretended to possess knowledge and cross-examined them, coming to the conclusion that they knew nothing. “Consequently their victims became annoyed not with themselves, but with Socrates”. (Plato, 1993) pg