... speech was a display of disrespect . Socrates soon paid the price of public humiliation for his hostility toward Sophists. Since the Sophists only lent their teaching services for a fee, only the upper class could afford to learn rhetoric skills. Many of these students were soon to be political leaders, ... that lies Socrates's fatal oversight. He dealt with reason and assumed people were reasonable; however, reason rarely guides politics. The mockery of his teaching, as portrayed in the allegories of the day, wasn't aimed at embarrassing him. The jury pool was being tainted. Socrates h...

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... of Socrates is based on the writings of Plato. Plato was traumatized by being present at the trial and execution of Socrates. Plato's response was to continue to teach the methods of Socrates in order to clear his mentor's name as a corruptor and in order to defy authority- in a sense to be true to himself. Because Plato's work was recorded and ... into Socrates" life, but, "This evidence is not consistent and interpretations vary widely." (P.M. Huby, 1964) From what Plato writes, Socrates believed knowledge was the key to virtue and happiness. Plato's teaching method was the exploratio...

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