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Socrates condemned to death
A man who only asked questions, executed for it
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The trial came four years after defeat by Sparta, in a city that felt humiliated and where several of Socrates's students had belonged to the tyranny. It was as much a political reckoning as a religious case. Plato wrote it down, and through him Western philosophy became in effect a conversation with Socrates — Whitehead called everything that followed "footnotes to Plato".
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Socrates walked about Athens putting questions to people who thought they knew something, until they discovered they did not. He never wrote a line. The city sentenced him to drink poison for corrupting the young.
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