Death of socrates

For my museum paper I have chosen to analyze “The Death of Socrates” painting located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art located in New York. “The Death of Socrates” was a work during the Neoclassic period. Neoclassicism symbolizes clarity of form, sober colors, shallow space, strong horizontal and verticals. It is inspired by Greek and Roman styles. In the painting it shows these examples of Neoclassicism it has sober colors, shallow space with a raking light and, strong horizontal and verticals

BD Socrates’ views of death as represented in “The Trial and Death of Socrates” are irrevocably tied to his beliefs of what makes life significant. For Socrates, life must be examined through constant questioning and one must hold the goodness of life above all else. Consequently, even in the face of the un-good, or unjust in Socrates’ case as represented in his trial, it would not be correct to do wrong, return wrong or do harm in return for harm done. Therefore, no act should be performed with

The Death of Socrates was painted by the French painter Jacques-Louis David during the Neo-classical era in 1787. The painting illustrates the execution the Philosopher Socrates as told by Plato in his Phaedo. In 399 B.C, the Athenian court had put Socrates on trial for talking about things in the sky and below the earth, corrupting the minds of the youth, and not believing in the gods, but in other spiritual things. Socrates was then sentenced to death by drinking a poisoned hemlock. In Plato’s

the defensive speech of Socrates at his trial before the “men of Athens” (17a). Socrates was indicted with charges of corrupting the youth of Athens and claiming the existence of new gods in which the youth were ordered to follow. As stated in the notes within the text, “the word apology is a transliteration…of the Greek apologia, which means defense: (21.1). Throughout the monologue, Socrates is defending his lifetime legacy and work against the ultimate sentence of death. Rather than assert his

In both the Aeschylus and The Trial and Death of Socrates the Greeks define a good death as a just death, and by the same token a good life was a just life. The two parental deaths in Aeschylus display one of each side. The murder of Agamemnon was the more permissible of the two, as Clytemnestra was not Agamemnon’s blood and was seeking her own justice. Her murder, however, is where the murkiness lies. She was also murdered in the name of vigilante justice, but by her own blood. This is an unforgivable

In the book, The Trail and Death of Socrates Euthyphro, a priest, tries to define the meaning of piety to Socrates. Euthyphro claims to be an expert in ethics, but to the readers surprise we find out that Euthyphro is in fact ignorant and knows nothing about holiness. The story begins when Socrates and Euthyphro meet outside the court of Athens. Euthyphro is going to prosecute against his father for accidently killing a murderous slave. Euthyphro asks what Socrates is doing there and he answers saying

Socrates’ trial and death Martyr means that a person is killed because of their religious beliefs. The martyr interpretation of Socrates’ trial and death was that Socrates’ should be condemned for corrupting the youth and not recognizing the gods that were recognized by the state. There were probably many people who believed the same thing as Socrates but never actually said anything. It was never accurate that Socrates did not believe in the Gods, it was more of him viewing the things of the world

The Trial and Death of Socrates. I will also go into detail about the differences between Machiavelli’s views of government as opposed to Socrates’s. Socrates and Machiavelli are two the greatest philosophers known today. Both had an effective way of showing and standing up for what they believe in. While both men were very intelligent, Socrates and Machiavelli differ with their views on justice. Socrates defines justice as doing what is best for the wellbeing of his country. Socrates shows this when

not having these principles in place. Everything must be done to attain moral goals. Morality plays a big role in peoples lives today and in the past. Upon reading Plato’s, The Trials and Death of Socrates, noticeable to the readers, Socrates believed strongly in the relationship between morality and laws. Socrates clearly portrays why it’s imperative to follow laws and why disobedience to the

Socrates was a moral philosopher who was accused of impiety and was about to be tried for a crime, the nature of which no one seemed to understand. The trial and death of Socrates has four dialogs known as the Euthyphro, the Apology, the Crito, and the Phaedo which describes the process of Socrates’ controversial and insightful trial that raises the questions about human morality. Within the story we learned that the relationship between morality and religion might not be as clear-cut as some might