Why was scorates sentenced to death?

Answer 1

if you mean Socrates it's because he went around being pompous and arrogant by claiming that All he knew was that he knew nothing. He would challenge all the learned men in the city and tried to get them to understand that they dont know anything. This made them all angry because claiming that no one knows anything is terribly annoying; He would also get people trapped in their answers in a way that they could not possible be "right". So instead of arguing any further, they figured its best to shut him up, permanently. He was put on trial for corrupting the minds of the youth, assumedly by instilling doubt in their mind about their own knowledge and the limits within. Modern society praises him since he tried to understand the roots of where we attain knowledge and to unequivocally question our beliefs. Concurrently however, modern society also finds it terribly annoying when someone takes all logic and reasoning presented in a debate and tosses it aside, focusing rather on our limitations in gaining, understanding and believing in that reasoning as the focal point of "our disagreement", rather than the issue itself. Why even bother to engage ourselves with that knowledge if the mere fact that we "know" it is in question. In terms of great philosophers, since his Socratic Method was the base for many other great philosophers' understand of knowledge, in between Confucius who made simple quandaries into convoluted riddles and that annoying teenager who keeps asking why no matter how you answer his question.