Gregg Rainville Professor Edward D’Angelo Philosophy 101 5 October 1999 The Trial and Death of Socrates Socrates was a great philosopher who had an incredible impact on philosophers of his time and even philosophers today. He lived in Athens from 469 B.C.E to 399 B.C.E during the Periclean Age. He taught his philosophy of life on the streets to anyone who cared to listen. His philosophy basically was that everyone is responsible for his or …showed first 75 words of 1223 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1223 total…the world, he looked at it in all aspects. Who is to say what he believed in was true? Obviously he and his trial had an impact on society if this story still lives to this day. I personally feel Socrates w as a great man of his time and he should have not been executed for his philosophy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Works Cited Plato. The Trial and Death of Socrates. Indiana: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc, 1975.