for corrupting the youth of athens
For denying the official gods and corrupting the youth through his teachings.
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.
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Socrates was sentenced to death by drinking hemlock.
hippocrates. he was known as the gadfly of athens and was sentenced to death by drinking hemlock. he drank it calmly and then sat and talked casually to his disciples, wauting for the poison to take affect.
When he was sentenced to death by a court for impiety, he was given the choice of suicide or the normal one of having his throat cut and being thrown into a garbage pit. He chose to drink hemlock.
No one. Well you could say that the Athens government did, because they sentenced him to death. But he did not want to be killed so he poisoned himself and died amongst friends.
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Socrates was sentenced to death by drinking hemlock.
Plato was not sentenced to death. It was his mentor, Socrates, who was sentenced to death by drinking hemlock. Plato himself was not sentenced to death but continued his philosophical teachings and writings.
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Socrates was found guilty of corrupting the minds of the youth of Athens and sentenced to death by drinking a mixture containing poison hemlock in 399 BC.
Socrates was sentenced to death for impiety and corrupting the youth of Athens. He was accused of not believing in the city's gods and introducing new deities, as well as influencing the youth with his teachings.
Socrates died by poison in 399 BC after being sentenced to death. The exact date is unknown.
he was sentenced to death for his opinions.
he was sentenced to death for his opinions.
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