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To: average joe who wrote (49924)	3/16/2014 2:04:06 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

socrates last words were 'someone feed my slaves'

To: average joe who wrote (49924)	3/16/2014 2:52:24 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

He was sentenced to death by suicide. And he did commit suicide. .... Socrates was 70 years old and familiar to most Athenians. His anti-democratic views had turned many in the city against him. Two of his students, Alcibiades and Critias, had twice briefly overthrown the democratic government of the city, instituting a reign of terror in which thousands of citizens were deprived of their property and either banished from the city or executed. After hearing the arguments of both Socrates and his accusers, the jury was asked to vote on his guilt. Under Athenian law the jurors did not deliberate the point. Instead, each juror registered his judgment by placing a small disk into an urn marked either "guilty" or "not guilty." Socrates was found guilty by a vote of 280 to 220. The jurors were next asked to determine Socrates' penalty. His accusers argued for the death penalty. Socrates was given the opportunity to suggest his own punishment and could probably have avoided death by recommending exile. Instead, the philosopher initially offered the sarcastic recommendation that he be rewarded for his actions. When pressed for a realistic punishment, he proposed that he be fined a modest sum of money. Faced with the two choices, the jury selected death for Socrates. The philosopher was taken to the near-by jail where his sentence would be carried out. Athenian law prescribed death by drinking a cup of poison hemlock. Socrates would be his own executioner. ........... I'd post the source but you don't like that.

To: average joe who wrote (49924)	3/16/2014 2:55:46 PM
From: Solon	1 Recommendation Recommended By average joe Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Yeah, Brumar is hilarious. He called Ingersoll the well known family man a bigot and intimated he was gay!! Message 26597903 "Ingersoll the Pathetic was no benefactor. What did he do for anyone other than the young men he "liked"? He almost had a nervous breakdown that year. He was really off the rails... <<ggg>>