Socrates' Death Analysis
Submitted by Hellgazer on February 11, 2009
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Socrates' Death Analysis
In the Apology, Socrates makes two distinct statements about death–the first, before the jury convicts
him, and the second, after he has been sentenced to death. Prior to sentencing, Socrates addresses death in its
epistemological and axial respects, and concludes that for the good, wise person, death is not to be feared for two
reasons: (1) death is unknown, and to fear what is unknown would be a pretence of wisdom, and (2) that death is
preferable over compromising one's beliefs in what is right and true (27). After receiving the sentence of death,
Socrates turns to the metaphysics of death, and reasons that what comes after must be either an...
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