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Friday, November 12, 2010

Who Is Socrates???

Do you know Socrates??? He was a philosophy who talking about how earth, sun and everything moving and the function to life. For the rest of his life, Socrates dedicated himself to unrestricted debate with the aristocratic young citizens of Athens,tenaciously questioning their unnecessary confidence in the truth of popular opinions, even though he often offered them with none clear lessons. Unlike the professional Sophists of the time, Socrates pointedly refused to accept payment for his work with students, but despite of this lofty disdain for material success, many of them were devotedly loyal to him. Their parents, however, were often unhappy with his influence on their son, and his earlier association with opponents of the democratic government had already made him a controversial political figure.  Although the amnesty of 405 forestalled direct action for his political activities, an Athenian jury found other charges, corrupting the youth and interfering with the religion of the city, upon which to convict Socrates, and they sentenced him to death in 399 B.C.E.

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