Socrates Killed Himself September 9, 2007
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Socrates had received a death sentence and was in prison. His friends wanted to bribe the authorities to help him escape, but he refused and chose death.
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Before he died Socrates said that this world is a poorly reflected image of the ultimate reality that may become accessible to the soul once it is freed.
Socrates then gave his famous description of what the Earth looks like as seen from space:
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Next he drank hemlock and drank it freely, willingly. Everybody agrees that he did it very very bravely and a little earlier than expected, and all along seemed to be in a happy, light mood.
He could have escaped, but didn´t.
This is hemlock.
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Later Plato wrote down how Socrates died :
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The painting by Jacques-Louis David about the death of Socrates is from the time of Napoleon. It is now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and at Wikipedia. http://tinyurl.com/czt4ed
The scans are from “Great Dialogues”. Plato had been a student of Socrates and later wrote the book.
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Quoting Aquinas:
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In my opinion, he was just sick and tired of all the hustle and he fetch the occasion to die as an hero and escape old age indignities as well…
!!! By changing the end of a story that is famous for its end, you do away with the story so that your newly invented ending is not needed anymore.