Should Socrates have drank the hemlock?
Socrates took the correct course of action by drinking the hemlock. If he had not, he would have only confirmed his guilt, and made a hypocrite of himself, by turning his back on his own teachings. At the age of eighteen, Athenians were presented with the choice to leave the city, if they did not wish to follow the laws of the city. Socrates was well-advanced in his age, over seventy years old, the choice to depart the city had long since past, and thus, he made his bed now he must lie in it. If...
Should Socrates have drank the hemlock?
When Socrates was in prison, he had a choice whether or not to drink the hemlock poison. It would not be wrong for him to do this because it was not a crime against anyone. David Hume, in "On Suicide" says, "If suicide be criminal, it must be a transgression of our duty to either God, our neighbor, or ourselves." Socrates drinking the hemlock would not be a transgression against his "neighbors" because many people wanted Socrates to die. It was not a transgression against himself because Socrate...
Should Socrates have drunk the hemlock?
Socrates made the decision to drink the hemlock and therefore commit suicide because the people of his city decided that was his fate, but was that really the correct choice? The Enchiridion says "Some things are in our control and others are not. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions" (1). According to this quote, whatever Socrates did would not have mattered. People have control over his reputation and command, he...
Should Socrates drink the Hemlock?
I believe that Socrates made the right decision to drink the Hemlock because he obtained the belief that a good life is only as good as you were honorable. In the eyes of the men of Athens, Socrates was accused of breaking the law, and he believed it would not be honorable to runaway from your punishment. Moreover, Socrates did not fear death, for death was unknown. There would be no reason at all to fear something if there is no true fact that it is evil, bad, or painful. Many only fear the unk...
Should Socrates have drank the hemlock?
Should Socrates have drank the Hemlock?
Should Socrates have drank the hemlock?
Socrates defined living well as "living according to your principles." Socrates had to live a honest and just life in order to live well. He has to take accountability whether that means doing anything from drinking hemlock to committing suicide. In this case however, Socrates realized not only that it was not right to escape, but the correct thing to do was to drink the hemlock. Had he escaped, he would have been admitting that he has a reason to escape. He must have done something unjust to es...
If Socrates should or shouldn't have drank the hemlock
Socrates had no reason to consume the hemlock. In "The Apology" Socrates proved himself not guilty of the crimes placed upon himself, spreading the belief of atheism and corrupting the youth. He proved through clever ambiguity that he never has been an atheist or did he spread the belief of atheism to the youth. And as for corrupting the youth, he proved that he merely offered new ideologies to just as any great philosopher before him has done. Therefore, for what viable reason to consume the he...
Should Socrates have drank the hemlock?
Socrates should have drank the hemlock because according to Socrates death is nothing but the separation between body and soul. "To be dead is the completion of this; when the soul exists in herself, and is released from the body and the body is released from the soul." Socrates simply believed that if he died he could grow more as a soul and learn more things that not any living person can learn. Socrates believed that the human body was an endless trouble and didn't want to bear it anymore. He...
Should Have Socrates Drank the Hemlock?
Socrates should have drunk the hemlock. In David Hume's "On Suicide", Hume writes "It would be no crime in me to divert the Nile or Danube from its course[...], where then is the crime of turning a few ounces of blood from their natural channel," basically stating that although many people are scared of death it should be widely accepted as it is normal and it is part of the natural order of life, as Hume states earlier in his writing, "nature still continues her progress...