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Fear Of Death In The Apology

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In fear of death is to be ignorant, because to have fear is to believe that harm follows after. In The Apology, Socrates is indicted by Meletus for “corrupting” the minds of the youth and not believing in gods of which the Athenians do. Socrates is given the option to escape death with a penalty however, he denies the offer as he questions why was death portrayed as something fearful instead of living. Although Socrates claims that to be fearful of death is to be ignorant, the outcome of death is unknown because only God knows that the ignorance of death can be unjustifiable, for death could be virtuous or vile. In the eyes of Socrates, he sees death as something blissful,” Let us reflect in this way, too, that there is good hope that death
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