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The Impious Socrates
Title: The Impious Socrates
Category: Social Sciences / Philosophy
Details: Words: 1478 | Pages: 6.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Impious Socrates
Socrates was prompted to inquire into the essence of piety after he was sentenced to death on the grounds he impious. Socrates' love of challenging and questioning other's knowledge got him accused of creating social unrest. In response to the disturbance, a politician charged Socrates with impiety. Impiety is the most obvious grounds on which to charge an inquiring mind, because religion is not open to questioning. In theory a democratic political system, like that …showed first 75 words of 1478 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1478 total…have told him she understood piety just fine without talking about it so much. Piety is not a concrete noun, but an abstract noun. The word describes an essence and any further deconstruction only does damage to the concept. Part of being human is the ability to think abstractly. Something does not have to be classified to have meaning.
Citation
Plato. Dialogues of Plato. Trans. T.E. Allen. vol. 1. New Haven & London: Yale, 1984.
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