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The Trial of Socrates; Decided: 399 BCE: Verdict: Guilty: Charge: Failing to acknowledge the gods that the city acknowledges; Corruption of the Youth; Citation(s) Plato; Xenophon; Diogenes Laertius: Case history; Subsequent action(s) Socrates sentenced to death: Court membership; Judge(s) sitting: 500 +/- jury members in Athens: Case ...
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11 de jul. de 2022 · The death of Socrates in 399 BC, as reported by Plato in the Phaedo, is one carried out by taking poison, possibly by drinking hemlock. The progressive paralysis that the condemned philosopher experienced, causing him to lay on his back as his legs gave way, is indicative of the drug’s effects on the body.
- Richard Bevan
Background of the trial of Socrates. The trial of Socrates in 399 bce occurred soon after Athens’s defeat at the hands of Sparta in the Peloponnesian War (431–404 bce ). Not only were Sparta and Athens military rivals during those years, they also had radically different forms of government.
Classroom. Ancient History. The controversial life and tragic death of Socrates, the father of western philosophy. © History Skills. Socrates, often hailed as the father of Western philosophy, was a figure whose ideas and methods have profoundly shaped the course of human thought.
23 de abr. de 2024 · The impact of his life was all the greater because of the way in which it ended: at age 70, he was brought to trial on a charge of impiety and sentenced to death by poisoning (the poison probably being hemlock) by a jury of his fellow citizens.
- Richard Kraut
- Socrates was an ancient Greek philosopher, one of the three greatest figures of the ancient period of Western philosophy (the others were Plato and...
- Socrates professed not to teach anything (and indeed not to know anything important) but only to seek answers to urgent human questions (e.g., “Wha...
- Socrates wrote nothing. All that is known about him has been inferred from accounts by members of his circle—primarily Plato and Xenophon—as well a...
- Socrates was widely hated in Athens, mainly because he regularly embarrassed people by making them appear ignorant and foolish. He was also an outs...
- Socrates could have saved himself. He chose to go to trial rather than enter voluntary exile. In his defense speech, he rebutted some but not all e...
9 de nov. de 2009 · Trial and Death of Socrates. Socrates avoided political involvement where he could and counted friends on all sides of the fierce power struggles following the end of the Peloponnesian...
16 de sept. de 2005 · All our information about him is second-hand and most of it vigorously disputed, but his trial and death at the hands of the Athenian democracy is nevertheless the founding myth of the academic discipline of philosophy, and his influence has been felt far beyond philosophy itself, and in every age.
