Modern Day Philosophy Of Socrates

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Socrates, the Greek philosopher was sentenced to death by hemlock for supposedly “corrupting the youth” by his theories which are today deemed to have been a revolutionary force behind modern day philosophy. Galileo Galilei was tried and condemned by the Roman Catholic Inquisition for stating the simple fact that we take for granted today but was so difficult to digest in the 17th Century. The man was jailed and deemed a radical for saying the solar system revolved around the Sun and not the Earth. This is what censorship has done to the men who paved the way for modern insight and thought. It has mostly, if not always, tried to stifle the lone and seemingly radical voice of

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