Suggesting that Socrates is right or wrong about the way man should live his life is something that some will agree with yet others appose it. I think Socrates had a strong grip on the subject and I tend to agree with his point of views. One can say that the kind of life one lives today is very different to the life they lived during Socrates time. However virtues have not changed and moral and family values existed then as they do now, yet people make the same mistakes today as the men of Athens did in their time.

Socrates demonstrates that the purpose of being good is not so that we are not judged at the time of our death, but rather that if you are good throughout your life for the soul purpose of being good and not so that you can somehow benefit from doing so, then you don’t have to fear death for nothing harmful can occur to you if you have followed this virtues lifestyle. Socrates describes death to us as if it is a pleasant thing; he actually calls it a “blessing”. When one dies, it seams that only one of two things can happen, according to Socrates. We can either fall into a deep dreamless sleep. I interpret this sleep stage to be a state of mind that one goes into immediately after death where one no longer has any control over his mind, body, or soul. A place where the mind, body, and the soul are at a complete rest, and one can achieve the perfect good for the rest of eternity. The other possibility is that death is another place, were everyone who has died before you is and that would be what Socrates called a “greater blessing”. He believes this because for Socrates their would be no better way for him to spend the rest of eternity than questioning all the great philosophers and writers that passed away before his time. I think that Socrates believes that this is the only true way that he can reach the true meaning of what the ultimate good and be aware that he has reached it.

Here we can see that man can make a foolish mistake even when he is acting in a manner, which he be

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