Post by Anthony Yu on Jul 1, 2015 4:21:27 GMT
Why was Socrates sentenced to death?
Socrate was sentenced to death because he was charged of tainting the children's minds. He was also charged for making up new gods while denying the old ones. While having a chance offered by his friend of escaping the prison, Socrates rejected the offer and continued to stay in the prison till the trial. The reason behind his decision of facing the charge can partially be due to his unwillingness of dragging his friends down. On the other hands, Socrate believed body is the chain of soul, and only death can free the soul from its imprisonment. At the end, Socrate was accused for corrupting the youth and refusing to recognize the gods other people believes in. Socrate was asked to drink down a poison and walk until his legs felt numb. Many people attended Socrate’s execution, and his last word was to remind his follower Crito to offer a cock to Asclepius, which is the god of medicine. His last word could be implying that they owe a debt to Asclepius because Socrate believed that his soul was finally free, cured, by the god.
Why is there a conflict between science and religion?
The conflict between religion and science can be broiled down to the confusion of the ultimate definition of “matter”, whether “matter” is just merely a collection of mass or much more. Religion is belief, and it is hard to change a person’s belief. Many examples can be drawn from history that great changes did not come easy. From Aristotle’s declaration that the earth was a sphere to Galileo’s proposal that earth is just another planet orbiting around the Sun, many people did not believe them and thought of them as a joke. It was not until Magellan who first sailed around the earth and Newton who hard prove the heliocentric model that people finally abandoned the old ideas.
Socrate was sentenced to death because he was charged of tainting the children's minds. He was also charged for making up new gods while denying the old ones. While having a chance offered by his friend of escaping the prison, Socrates rejected the offer and continued to stay in the prison till the trial. The reason behind his decision of facing the charge can partially be due to his unwillingness of dragging his friends down. On the other hands, Socrate believed body is the chain of soul, and only death can free the soul from its imprisonment. At the end, Socrate was accused for corrupting the youth and refusing to recognize the gods other people believes in. Socrate was asked to drink down a poison and walk until his legs felt numb. Many people attended Socrate’s execution, and his last word was to remind his follower Crito to offer a cock to Asclepius, which is the god of medicine. His last word could be implying that they owe a debt to Asclepius because Socrate believed that his soul was finally free, cured, by the god.
Why is there a conflict between science and religion?
The conflict between religion and science can be broiled down to the confusion of the ultimate definition of “matter”, whether “matter” is just merely a collection of mass or much more. Religion is belief, and it is hard to change a person’s belief. Many examples can be drawn from history that great changes did not come easy. From Aristotle’s declaration that the earth was a sphere to Galileo’s proposal that earth is just another planet orbiting around the Sun, many people did not believe them and thought of them as a joke. It was not until Magellan who first sailed around the earth and Newton who hard prove the heliocentric model that people finally abandoned the old ideas.