Socrates

In today's class we began with talking about Socrates' trial. He was charged with the two different crimes; the corruption of Athens' youth and impiety. We then went into what these two crimes meant: corruption of Athens' youth meant that he was damaging the minds of kids or abusing their minds, and impiety: not believing in the gods of state and telling others that or saying some other superior being or beings are out there. We talked about his defense in which he just disrespected Athens and was cocky about himself. The class then discussed what our votes would be if we lived then and what our votes would be now-a-days. For if we lived then, we unanimously voted for him to die (6-13) and for now-a-days we voted to keep hi alive (everyone voted for hi to stay alive). We then saw a portrait of Socrates' death which the jury had voted to kill him. Back then you were forced to drink poison hemlock which would shut down each of your organs and stuff one by one and hour or so later. He had apparently had a chance to escape but refused because this wash the democracy worked.