How did Socrates die? How did Socrates die?

After the restoration of slave-owning democracy in Athens, Socrates was charged with contempt for traditional religion, the introduction of new gods, corrupting youth, and opposing democracy, and sentenced to death. According to the Crito Chapter, he rejected the advice of friends and students asking him to beg for pardon and flee, and died of poisoned alcohol at the age of 70.

Socrates did advocate a new God, a true source of moral goodness and wisdom: the God of universal reason. This cosmic rational God is the ultimate basis of Socrates' philosophical quest for the true good, and man can have knowledge because he has received God's special care, has been endowed with a part of the divinity, and thus has a soul, a loving mind and reason.

But one should understand that the little soul you have is incomparable to the wisdom of God. Therefore, this new rational concept of God and the teaching that man should "know himself and ignorant" have become a powerful force to inspire and motivate man to pursue true knowledge and to criticize the untrue, the untrue, the false, the false and the hypocritical.

Socrates loved the Athenian city-state, and he would not allow the slightest desecration of the holiest faith, so he chose to die. He did not value his life, but he paid more attention to his soul, and he believed that God was everywhere and omnipotent, and that everything was a conscious and purposeful arrangement of God. He did not rebel against God, and since death is God's call to him, what else could he hesitate about?

People may laugh at him, at his naivety, at his stubbornness, at his obstinacy, but only those who have a true insight into his inner world will be impressed by his wisdom and loyalty: the virtues that wisdom has made him see and which he has been paying close attention to unnoticed by all, loyalty to the city-state he loves, to the laws he has obeyed all his life, to his eternal ideals.

In the case of Socrates, one side was the great philosopher who pursued truth and sacrificed his life for righteousness, and the other side was the Athenian city-state, which was regarded as the source of democratic politics and was regarded as the source of democratic politics. The distinction between right and wrong, who is good and who is evil, is not so clear, and the emotional trade-off becomes a painful torture, so its tragic color is more and more obvious.

Socrates, both during his lifetime and after his death, had a large number of ardent admirers and a large number of fierce opponents. He did not leave any writings during his lifetime, and his actions and doctrines were handed down mainly through the writings of his pupils Plato and Xenophon. The life and doctrine of Socrates has always been one of the most discussed issues in academic circles because of the various records and theories that have been recorded and said since ancient times.

But his impact was enormous. In the history of European culture, he has always been regarded as a saint who died in pursuit of truth, almost the same place as Confucius occupies in Chinese history. Historians of philosophy often refer to him as a watershed in the history of the development of ancient Greek philosophy, referring to the philosophy that preceded him as pre-Socratic philosophy.

He ushered in a new era of Greek philosophy with a new understanding of philosophy, and with his basic ideas of soul reincarnation and purification, he had a profound and tremendous influence on Plato, and through them he influenced Western philosophy in the Hellenistic Roman era and even later generations.

Socrates was sentenced to death in 399 BC by the Athenian court for insulting the Athenian gods, introducing new theism, and corrupting the minds of the Athenian youth. Although Socrates was given the opportunity to flee, he chose to die by drinking hibiscus juice because he believed that fleeing would only further undermine the authority of Athenian law.

According to Athenian law at the time, the execution of a prisoner was by giving him a glass of poisoned wine, and during the month of detention before the execution, the court allowed the prisoner's relatives and friends to visit the prisoner. When one of the young men who visited Socrates in prison was asked if Socrates had any last words, Socrates said: "I have nothing more to ask for than to remember what I have said to you." ”

Socrates drank poisoned wine and died.

1. After the restoration of slave-owning democracy in Athens, Socrates was accused of contempt for traditional religion, the introduction of new gods, the corruption of youth, and opposition to democracy, and was sentenced to death. He rejected the advice of friends and students asking him to beg for pardon and flee, and died of poisoned liquor at the age of 70.

2. Socrates was known for his love for the Athenian city-state, and he did not allow the most sacred faith to be blasphemed in the slightest, so he resolutely chose to die. It's not that he doesn't value his life, but he pays more attention to his soul.