Socrates spent his time questioning people about things like virtue, justice, piety and truth. The people Socrates questioned are the people that condemned him to death. Socrates was sentenced to death because people did not like him and they wanted to shut him up for good. There was not any real reason for condemning him at all. He was charged with being an atheist and corrupting the youth. This was odd because he didn’t tell the youth to follow him and he had never said he was an atheist. The real reasons he was condemned was for telling people what he thought of them, he also questioned ideas that had been known to be normal for years, and that youth followed him and copied his questioning for fun. Socrates had been put into jail and he actually had a chance to escape and never some back to Athens. He did not want to stop his questioning because he believed it was his duty to keep going on, and for that he got sentenced to death. Socrates was right to refuse escape, because if he had not refused, his philosophies would not have had such a big impact as they do now. ...
