Trial And The Death Of Socrates Analysis

The trial and the death of Socrates is the building blocks of the western culture and philosophy. Despite the fact that this text is mostly focused on training yourself how to think and question your knowledge, it also has embedded the life of an ideal Greek male and ancient Greek society. Every word in the four dialogs takes you back to the ancient Athens where people did not have to worry about the economic crises. Instead, focused on fighting against people who questioned the knowledge of poets, politicians or anyone who considered themselves educated and possessed wisdom. Socrates, a Greek philosopher who spent his blossoming years teaching the young the importance of wisdom was punished with the death penalty. Through time, education and knowledge have been the unleathal weapons against life and its injustices. But what did education mean to an ideal Greek ancient male? They had to be the Leonardo Da Vinci of Athens but had to …show more content…
“But you see Socrates that it is necessary to care about the opinion of the world too. This very thing that has happened to you proves that the multitude can do a man not the least but almost the greatest harm.”(Plato, 83), according to the Trial and the death of Socrates, the Athenian society was a society that valued the opinions of their fellow Athenians rather than themselves. Their society was a collectivist society rather than an individualistic society. The ancient Greeks valued the opinions of others but according to Socrates, the opinions of many people didn’t matter. “We must not regard what the many say of us: but what he the one man who has understanding of just and unjust, will say and what the truth will say.” ( Plato, 89-90). We must value an opinion that is based on true and just premises and opinion that is accompanied with