Summary Of Plato's Apology: Defense Of Socrates

Socrates was a Philosopher from Greece, who is credited as one of the founders of Western Philosophy. He was an enigma who scholars in the modern world who learned about the writings of his students such as Xenophon and Plato. Plato wrote extensively about his master Socrates, and this helps shed light on the nature of Socrates. In this research, I am going to converse about the view that Socrates had on death. His views on death are expressed by Plato in his book known as Apology: Defense of Socrates. The book was supposed to analyze and represent the things that Socrates had to go through to his trial. Socrates was on trial after he had been accused of corrupting the youth and being a busybody (Irvine).
In his trial, Socrates defended himself by indicating that he was just performing the tasks that he was expected to accomplish by his God. He stated that the God has declared him to be wiser than all people on the planet. He used these assertions as defense in the trial, and he did not succeed thus losing the trial. In the sentencing, he was sentenced to death though he remained defiant throughout the trial. Since he had been sentenced to death, he would face his mortality something that he thought could not have happened to him. His defiance throughout the sentencing was as a result of his view of death. He thought that
He uses many phrases that indicate his view of death. For example, he uses the phrase below in the book: “The fear of death amounts to simply thinking one is wise when one is not” (pg 29). However, he changes his perspective on page 35 where he insists that we should all reflect on the reasons as to why we hope that death is a good thing. He spent a lot of time contemplating about death and what happens to the soul and life of an individual when they die. In determining what happens when one dies, Socrates suggested that there could only be two