Post by Zheng Zhao on Apr 23, 2015 16:22:40 GMT
Socrates was sentenced to death because of his wisdom and just. His exact charge was that “Socrates acts unjustly in corrupting the youth, and in not believing in those gods in whom the city believes, but in other strange divinities.” In fact, Socrates is wiser because he does not pretend to know something when he actually knows nothing. The less wise one, according to Socrates, fancies to know something when he actually knows nothing. Perhaps Socrates becomes odious to many people because he constantly travels and converses with them, who Socrates thinks and wishes are supposedly wiser than him, but always ends up growing hatred towards Socrates because through the conversation, he reveals to them the fact that they are not as wise as they thought and that they indeed know nothing. Socrates also made a number of young people to follow him his deed but was accused of corrupting the youth because “there is one Socrates.” I think that the sentence of Socrates to death reflects that people then were somehow narrow-minded and pretentious, especially those who were in charge. They did not welcome new ideas or even truth if they threatened the reputation or validity of the regime. Therefore, Socrates, who always follows the truth, justice and the lead of God, became the sacrifice of the era.