It’s also poetic that he didn’t give up his ways to the literal bitter end
JackThaBongRipper on
it’s almost like history repeats itself over and over and over and over again
Greenmarmote on
For the défense of Athenians the favourite student of Socrates Critias was the leader of the oligarchy of the Thirty and person who officially despised morality (source from lysias and Xenophon both side of the political opinion) he called his regime “collective tyranny” and said that moral is useless and only power mater (not exactly like that but you got the idea) so killing the professor is not so far fetched, also Athenians loved blood and killing their leader so yea hemlock for you
AestheticNoAzteca on
That’s not what happened.
He was barely found guilty just by a few votes.
If he accepted to pay a little amount of money it would not be a big deal. But instead he claimed that the penalty should have been a reward in the same place that the Olympics champions celebrate.
So the jury took that attitude as disrespect to the democracy and then he was sentenced to death.
And even then, he could have easily escaped thanks to his friends. But he decided to die anyway.
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DAMN.
“But, but, but… He was corrupting the youth.” 🥺👉👈
It’s also poetic that he didn’t give up his ways to the literal bitter end
it’s almost like history repeats itself over and over and over and over again
For the défense of Athenians the favourite student of Socrates Critias was the leader of the oligarchy of the Thirty and person who officially despised morality (source from lysias and Xenophon both side of the political opinion) he called his regime “collective tyranny” and said that moral is useless and only power mater (not exactly like that but you got the idea) so killing the professor is not so far fetched, also Athenians loved blood and killing their leader so yea hemlock for you
That’s not what happened.
He was barely found guilty just by a few votes.
If he accepted to pay a little amount of money it would not be a big deal. But instead he claimed that the penalty should have been a reward in the same place that the Olympics champions celebrate.
So the jury took that attitude as disrespect to the democracy and then he was sentenced to death.
And even then, he could have easily escaped thanks to his friends. But he decided to die anyway.
So it was basically a situation like:
Objective: protect Socrates.
Obstacle: Socrates.