More About Socrates

         Today in school I learned more about the great man Socrates. When he was a young man he worked as a stonemason and he even met young students outside the agora. An agora is a gathering place, assembly, and a market place. Socrates also fought heroically in the Peloponnesian War. Because of that this may have shaped the way he viewed the world. He also would make people think deeper about their thoughts by asking a series of questions to determine their beliefs and the extent of their knowledge. This later led to the Scientific method. Then later Socrates was charged with two crimes. His crimes was not believing in the gods of the state and making people think different about the world and what they thought. For his defense he said that it was his job to that and that he should be rewarded for what he is doing. But unfortunately he was found guilty and sentence to death.