Socrates

Plato Aristotle The trial of Socrates (399 BCE) was held to determine the philosopher’s guilt of two charges: [|asebeia] (impiety) against the [|pantheon] of Athens, and corruption of the youth of the city-state; the accusers cited two impious acts by Socrates: “failing to acknowledge the gods that the city acknowledges” and “introducing new deities”.  The death sentence of [|Socrates] was the legal consequence of asking politico-philosophic questions of his students, from which resulted the two accusations of moral corruption and of impiety. At trial, the majority of the [|dikast]s (male-citizen jurors chosen by lot) voted to convict him of the two charges; then, consistent with common legal practice, voted to determine his punishment, and agreed to a sentence of death to be executed by Socrates’s drinking a poisonous beverage of [|hemlock].  Primary-source accounts of the trial and execution of Socrates are the [|Apology of Socrates] by [|Plato] and the [|Apology of Socrates to the Jury] by [|Xenophon of Athens], who had been his student; contemporary interpretations include The Trial of Socrates (1988) by the journalist [|I. F. Stone], and Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths (2009) by the Classics scholar [|Robin Waterfield].[|[1]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Socrates // **The Death of Socrates** // ( [|French] : //La Mort de Socrate//) is an oil on canvas painted by French painter [|Jacques-Louis David] in 1787.

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