What exactly did they kill him for?
He currupted the youth.
Being smart and being a smartass about it.
His whole trial was "It's just a prank bro"
>>1053818
Athens lost the Peloponesean war, and Sparta set up a puppet government of 30 oligarchs
They were
A) Quite repressive and brutal
B) Several of them were noted students of Socrates.
When they were eventually overthrown and Athens regained de facto independence, Socrates got blamed for a lot of their excesses.
He was blamed for the tyrants who had briefly wrestled grasp from the democracy, given his apparent support for them. If you believe Plato, though, it was his refusal to play the game of politics, and general pride overriding a sense of self-preservation, as he more-or-less demanded death or no charge. Further, even refusing to flee when he had opportunity--and probably expectation to do so.
Maybe both. Socrates possibly killed himself to make a point.
he was an impetuous shit who deserved worse than death
got off easy if you ask me
The politicians thought he might be a danger to the order of the city.
Being a fedora, even though he believed in the gods.
>>1053818
Producing people like Alcibiades
Ugly guy with a huge cock who wouldn't leave and kept annoying people and making Nobel's looks like tards
>>1053881
>Not having a boner for a guy like that
>>1053818
They didn't like his punk ass freethinky state of mind.
Athens at the time had become a rigid, patriarchal society, with very deeply cemented assumptions about who deserves what and why the powerful are justified to rule.
Socrates said fuck all that. He wanted to get people to question their bedrock assumptions, wake up to the fact that they have been subtly mesmerized by society to shut off their minds.
This was ultimately too dangerous for the elite of Athens to accept, so they merc'd him.
>>1053818
For audaciously challenging tradition, thus endangering society
(they were right, sort of)
>>1053833
Can someone confirm?
>>1053818
He diddled little boys thats why
>>1054287
Confirmed, Socrates hated democracy and subverted Athenian values.
>>1053859
>Maybe both. Socrates possibly killed himself to make a point.
You cannot be more of a Philosopher than that.
>>1055621
Young men in particular.
>>1054287
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Tyrants
>The Thirty Tyrants, led by Critias, executed, murdered, and exiled many Athenians. Critias, who coincidentally was a former pupil of Socrates, was considered a cruel, frightening, and inhumane man who was "determined to remake the city to his own anti-democratic mold whatever the human cost."
Wasn't it "atheism"?
Even though he wasn't really atheist, they were worried his constant questioning of things divine would make Athena stop supporting their city?
>>1053818
Idk.
But some people say that he's actually a monotheist and he was called an atheist for that, because christians way back in the early days were called atheists because they didn't believe in other gods.
Also one more thing I heard is that he's a monarchist and he doesn't really like democracy, idk if this means he didn't like that there was no formal leader or he was actually in support for an actual monarch.
They couldn't handle the bants.
