This essay is about Socrates in the Apology. Socrates was a philosopher, a religious fanatic and a man of reason who lived to questioned why things are the way they are, due to his occupation of questioning and reasoning he was later brought to court on charges of corrupting the young and encouraging people not to believe in godly things that are recognized by the state as said by his accusers. During his trial he said quite a numerous things in the Apology and he was found guilty by the juries and was sentenced to death. So, in this essay I will be explaining why he thinks that death should not be always avoided during his trial on apology. And I will be explaining my position regarding what Socrates has said that we shouldn’t always avoid death.
Socrates thinks that death should not be avoided for reason that he believes having him sentenced to death by the jury think that they are causing any harm to him but the actual fact it is that they are not harming him in any way because neither of them or anyone includes Socrates himself have knowledge that whether death is harmful or not, so he holds that since that it’s the cause he has no or sees no reason for one to fear death because generally human nature we fear things that are harmful to us, things that we genuinely know to be harmful because we have experience the harm for example one being shot in the arm with gun may results in losing the arm, be in pains and wounded which provide reason for people to fear to shot. And