The Trial And Death Of Socrates Analysis

1. In the document “The Trial and Death of Socrates,” Socrates was Plato’s teacher who Plato looked up to. Socrates is charged with not recognizing the gods of the state, talking and writing about new deities, and destroying the young people’s mind in Athens. Socrates is found guilty of these charges. The jury convicted Socrates and sentenced him to death. Socrates states, that no one, but the gods know what happens after death and he does not fear the unknown.
“The Buddha’s Fire Sermon,” I took from the readings, is that after a death the individual will either be reborn or will enter nirvana. To enter nirvana the individual must achieve enlightenment. In the document, Buddha talks about the fire which I perceive to be bad. For instance, Buddha states about the fire of old age, infatuation, death, grief. Which I feel are things people necessarily wish to not have. While giving his speech, the minds of many priests became free and delivered from their depravities; which then would mean that they have reach enlightenment and may then go into nirvana.
Death and life is considered as nothing. In the Bhagavad-Gita there is no such thing as bad or good. It is simply nothing. Arjuna is set to battle the kingdom per say to claim the kingdom. In doing so he ask Krishna, who is instructed to take him into battle, pretty much for his viewpoint

Socrates spoke to the young people of Athens about the many other teachings that are present not just the ones that the state taught. In life he provoke thought, reason, and always question ever thing, even if the questions were hard to ask or answer. In his death Socrates did not fear. He did not fear death, because no one had ever come back from the dead to tell him if it was a bad or good experience. He did not fear the afterlife, because no one had ever told him about his or her experience in the