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> I always have to look up if it was Socrates or Plato who got sentenced to death for simultaneously being an atheist and worshiping new gods his city didn't re
by IncRnd 4y ago
> I always have to look up if it was Socrates or Plato who got sentenced to death for simultaneously being an atheist and worshiping new gods his city didn't recognise.
It was Socrates, who was sentenced to death for impiety towards the gods and for corrupting the youth. Socrates was not an atheist.
- ben_w 4y ago> Socrates was not an atheist. Page 42, that was his argument. Didn't really help him to prove his accusers were claiming a logical impossibility. https://archive.org/details/onsocrates00mayh/mode/1up?q=atheist https://archive.org/details/onsocrates00mayh/mode/1up?q=athe...
- IncRnd 4y agoReread your linked portion of page 42. "Thus, Socrates refutes the charge that he does not worship the gods of the state (i.e., is an atheist, according to Meletus), by showing that it contradicts the charge that he worships “false” gods, which, of course, are gods of some sort."
- ben_w 4y agoAnd yet he was found guilty. Being actually right isn't always enough to avoid condemnation by your peers.