tes had a chance to escape, his followers and students planned an escape of the prison cell, but he didnt take it. He served his penalty as he was suppose to. He died by drinking a cup of Hemlock. It is said that on his last day all his friends were there including his wife. Xanthippe was there with their youngest son on her arms. There was a painting done on the seventeenth century showing his last day: Thoughts, Ideas, & PhilosophySocrates had many thoughts and ideas. He thought differently than others. He thought that knowledge was essential to a person. Socrates was once told by a fortune teller that he was the smartest man in Greece. He did not believe this, so he went to ask people (who were supposed to be smart) questions, to see if he really was the smartest man in Greece. He asked things like what is knowledge, why do people do wrong, and so on. This became known as the Socratic Method. He believed that by asking these type of questions, and cross examining the people he would be able to get the answer from them. Socrates also believed that no one knowingly does wrong. Which he thought meant that if a person does not know what is right, then that person will do wrong, but in the other hand, if the person knows what is right will do right. He once learned the motto know thyself. To his point of view, this meant that in knowing oneself, ne saw the possibility of knowing what is really good. He thought that virtue was knowledge. He said that if people have the wrong idea of virtue, love, morality, or any other ethical idea, He said that they cant be trusted to do what is right. The soul to him was the seat of both, waking consciousness and moral character. He also thought that a mans nature showed him how to act correctly and in harmony with knowledge. He believed a persons evil and wrong actions come from ignorance and the failure to investigate why people act as they do. As a result of this he said the une...
