PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Socratic Method
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* the unexamined life is not worth living - important quote in the apology. Socrates did not take pay from students, but he had many followers. Socrates was accused of a) not acknowledging the gods, more or less tantamount to atheism b) introducing strange deities or daimonia c) corrupting the youth. Socrates proposed that he should be giving free lunches for giving wisdom to others, but then convinced to pay a ne by his friends. Was voted to be executed because of his witty answer. Even when faced with death socrates does not care, he did not want to do something wrong, stop practicing his philosophical views, when he does not know what death is.