Plato's The Last Days Of Socrates

The topic of this paper will be over the book “The Last Days of Socrates”. The author of the book is Plato. Plato was born in Athens his father was named Ariston and his mothers name was Perictione. Plato became a pupil of Socrates when he was young. Plato attended his trial but he did not attend the execution of Socrates.(onelittleangel.com) The story describes how Socrates is being taken to trial for being accused of putting “wrong” thoughts into the minds of young men. Socrates goes to trial and explains himself and why he is innocent and why people may get these false ideas. The first topic that stood out to me in the Last Days of Socrates is Religion. The entire beginning of the story consists of a conversation with Euthyphro who
I was dismayed to find that Socrates was guilty after pleading his case. In his plea he explains that he does believe in the gods and that it is true that he believes in the underworld and the spiritual world but that is because he believes in the gods that he believes in both of these things. That if you believe in the spiritual world you have to believe in the gods and he is teaching his pupils about the spiritual world. In saying all of this Socrates is proving the point that he is not corrupting the young but he is trying to educate them more. It is very out of the ordinary that someone is to be found guilty and put to death just because he is speaking his mind. The main form of education was through tutors or sophists and Socrates had his own opinions which he was just educating other pupils on. That is also a huge difference in our time periods, in our years someone would never be put to death for speaking about his or her religion or way of thinking. In the Athenian court system they let the citizens’ vote. Which shows some similarities with our modern court system because we do have a jury but we mainly just let the jury and the judge decide. They may be put in prison for harassing others but never condemned to