williejonesjr
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I hope he's never forgotten. I think he was a one- of- a - kind.Thanks for the comments, I appreciate it. The death of Socrates- what a way to die! If I understand correctly, the guards were even willing to let him escape because he was so loved and popular but Socrates chose to drink the hemlock and not to run. I myself don't understand that.
But what this shows is that Socrates was not the egghead caricature that modern society wants to depict intelligent people as. Socrates was a man. These dudes now..... many of your local philosophy professors are spineless. They've totally betrayed Socrates' legacy. There are homeless drunks who keep it truer to Socrates' legacy than these professors do. They won't even speak out, much less die for their beliefs.
But Socrates was like the head of a hydra. You cut off the head and more heads appear. One day, his name could be completely forgotten and lost. But he'll continuously reappear in every generation regardless.
I feel like my profs could have done more to honor him, now that you mention it.