Post by Chloe Wang on Jul 30, 2016 14:03:48 GMT
1. Why was Socrates Sentenced to death?
Socrates was accused of two charges. One was Socrates “did not believe in the gods recognition by the State,” and the other one was “he had corrupted the Athenian youth by his teachings” (“How Socrates Died” 2). Socrates always preferred to stand upon his own integrity and innocence, uninfluenced by the fear of that imaginary evil, death. According to my own knowledge on Socrates, he challenged anyone’s thinking through his own understanding and beliefs. Because of his thinking, it made him stood out to the community which was different from everyone else’s opinion. For the first accusation, he never really denied nor confessed, he always believed in God more than he fears men. Socrates’ defense during the trial proved himself for not being fearful towards anything, and he persisted that his beliefs and methods were correct. With the two charges, Socrates was declared guilty and sentenced to death. Therefore, he was condemned by the judges to die by drinking the poisonous hemlock.
2. Why is there a conflict (for some) between science and religion?
There have been many debates on the topic science vs. religion. While religion is something more where people pass things on to others, and science is something that has been proven and is permanently set. In the video, “The Limits of Science” mentioned that “the limits of our skull are our limits of our understanding.” Sometimes people set other people’s beliefs and understanding as a base line because we have nothing to compare it to and we cannot think pass that base line, so we force ourselves to take those beliefs as our beliefs, but once some other person comes up with a concept that is more convincing, then we immediately abandon that old belief and take in the new one, which implies that religious thinking can be proven wrong. On the other hand, science is something that is set, like it cannot be changes anymore. We have nothing against it and we are too lazy to find any evidence to prove it wrong, so we automatically think whatever has been scientifically proven right is right, we cannot abandon it.
Socrates was accused of two charges. One was Socrates “did not believe in the gods recognition by the State,” and the other one was “he had corrupted the Athenian youth by his teachings” (“How Socrates Died” 2). Socrates always preferred to stand upon his own integrity and innocence, uninfluenced by the fear of that imaginary evil, death. According to my own knowledge on Socrates, he challenged anyone’s thinking through his own understanding and beliefs. Because of his thinking, it made him stood out to the community which was different from everyone else’s opinion. For the first accusation, he never really denied nor confessed, he always believed in God more than he fears men. Socrates’ defense during the trial proved himself for not being fearful towards anything, and he persisted that his beliefs and methods were correct. With the two charges, Socrates was declared guilty and sentenced to death. Therefore, he was condemned by the judges to die by drinking the poisonous hemlock.
2. Why is there a conflict (for some) between science and religion?
There have been many debates on the topic science vs. religion. While religion is something more where people pass things on to others, and science is something that has been proven and is permanently set. In the video, “The Limits of Science” mentioned that “the limits of our skull are our limits of our understanding.” Sometimes people set other people’s beliefs and understanding as a base line because we have nothing to compare it to and we cannot think pass that base line, so we force ourselves to take those beliefs as our beliefs, but once some other person comes up with a concept that is more convincing, then we immediately abandon that old belief and take in the new one, which implies that religious thinking can be proven wrong. On the other hand, science is something that is set, like it cannot be changes anymore. We have nothing against it and we are too lazy to find any evidence to prove it wrong, so we automatically think whatever has been scientifically proven right is right, we cannot abandon it.