Socrates

Cyber day #3

I think Socrates and others started to question traditional beliefs because of all the terrible things that were happening in Greece at that time. When Pericles died society started to fall apart and people started to fight for power. After the war when the ships came back without picking up the fallen sailors and the citizens and government were angry with them. While the government was trying to charge the captains of the ships with murder and execute them, Socrates used his morals and didn't follow the rest of society. He thought for himself and he realized that it wasn't right for them to execute them. Everyone else in society was going along with the mentality of the state, which was to be brute and fight with violence. Socrates didn't think this was right and he tried to make them believe  that what they were doing wasn't right. He questioned others beliefs because he knew it was wrong for them to kill the captains that had won the battle for them. He had his own beliefs which were different from others and that's why he was persecuted for it.