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Let us look at the pages of a history starting from religion.
Admission and commonness of religion now had its origin in struggle between followers and opposition.
A process which still continues in one sense or another nowadays as well.
The Bible encloses many chapters created from suffering and sacrifices - experienced especially in times of Christianity beginnings when changes it carried used to be the most unacceptable. The name of Nero certainly rings a bell as his merits in development of Christianity history are enormous.
There were people who did, as well as Christians who didn't and as a punishment they were doomed to a cruel death preceded by martyrdom. Alive nourishment for lions, fire for entertainment of Romans. This was the cost of professing different religions those days.
However religion was not the only source of objections. Another valuable example made people who had to lead their lives in times when possessing own opinion was threatened with unpleasant consequences.
Socrates, (today regarded as a Greek philosopher) was sentenced to death because of persistence in defending his points of view. Local authority found them dangerous because they undermined the established order. To the very end Socrates strongly believed in rightness of views he stood for, strengthening himself by keeping reminding himself that the moment he denies them, he denies himself.
What is death at such time when one faces the threat of betraying themselves, the very being that constitutes what we are made of...
In order to overcome death, they all must have had strong faith in both themselves and in the rightness of a matter.
Times have changed – attitudes towards differences in regards to punishment have lightened but a problem remained. Everyone happens to be confronted with oppositions; some face it from time to time, some - every day. And so everyone reacts differently: from others or even in case of their own attitude. Some can't stand fighting at all, which finds the more understanding when it is thought about present times as worse than the said past.
The question might stand rhetorical as it is not expected to be able to imagine a decision towards own attitude in the face of such danger like mentioned, for example.
The only assessment possible to make is on the basis of attitude we adopt in our lives.
How strong and firm we are in our beliefs? Do we always stand by right matters, matters which are in agreement with our conscience (supposing it is clear enough to be heard)? Do we leave at least a tiny bit of space for a possibility of other, different beliefs being true?
Is there something about which you could openly say that you would be ready to defend, even till the very death…?
A fraction of view at Socrates' trial, views and the future he initiated.
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Socrates lived in Athens, where he taught, discussing with casual passers-by walking on streets, gaining both popularity and enmity. At the age of 70 he was accused of impiety and corruption of the youth.
Charge against him were filed to court: "This accusation was lodged under oath by Meletos, the son of Meletos, from Pittos commune, against Socrates, the son of Sofronisc, from Alopeke commune, Socrates is guilty of non-recognition of gods acknowledged by the authority and of implementation of a cult of some new deities. He is also guilty of corrupting the youth. For which he shall suffer penalty of death."
Socrates was found guilty by slight majority composed of the assembly of 500 people.
In the first voting 280 people voted for the punishment of death Chile 220 people stood for his innocence. In the next voting there were already 360 people voting for death and 140 against. If Socrates had agreed to leave Athens he would have rescued his life but he didn't acceded to it. Like one of his friends described his attitude: "He is killing himself with his own sword of irony". Socrates valued peace of his conscience and truth higher than life. After the filed charge, the guilty person usually offered an exile, and a court usually consented to it. However Socrates said bravely that he deserved rather a prize than a penalty.
His terrified friends managed though to persuade him to ask for a penalty. The Court however chose death, which the majority of judges voted for.
Socrates took sentence with peace, believing that"... no evil can come near good person, neither in life nor after death."
* * * *
Thanks to Socrates attitude, his apprentice Plato followed his steps, and amplified his views.
Some of these thoughts were among all:
Good is divided into two worlds: ideal and real where ideal goods are higher than real ones.
There are three theses concerning it:
1. Goods make hierarchies
2. On the top of a hierarchy there is not any of real goods but the ideal Good.
3. Real goods are the beginning, unavoidable stage on the way to the top. Love is nothing else but the Wright timing for achieving and eternal possession of Good. The first object of love are Real goods, In the course of time awareness is born, that beauty of souls is greater than beauty of bodies. Through real, relative and finished mundane goals one can reach for ideal, absolute, immortal goals which is a sense of love. Through the love for an idea of souls a human becomes a middleman between the real world and the ideal world.
Charge against him were filed to court: "This accusation was lodged under oath by Meletos, the son of Meletos, from Pittos commune, against Socrates, the son of Sofronisc, from Alopeke commune, Socrates is guilty of non-recognition of gods acknowledged by the authority and of implementation of a cult of some new deities. He is also guilty of corrupting the youth. For which he shall suffer penalty of death."
Socrates was found guilty by slight majority composed of the assembly of 500 people.
In the first voting 280 people voted for the punishment of death Chile 220 people stood for his innocence. In the next voting there were already 360 people voting for death and 140 against. If Socrates had agreed to leave Athens he would have rescued his life but he didn't acceded to it. Like one of his friends described his attitude: "He is killing himself with his own sword of irony". Socrates valued peace of his conscience and truth higher than life. After the filed charge, the guilty person usually offered an exile, and a court usually consented to it. However Socrates said bravely that he deserved rather a prize than a penalty.
His terrified friends managed though to persuade him to ask for a penalty. The Court however chose death, which the majority of judges voted for.
Socrates took sentence with peace, believing that"... no evil can come near good person, neither in life nor after death."
* * * *
Thanks to Socrates attitude, his apprentice Plato followed his steps, and amplified his views.
Some of these thoughts were among all:
Good is divided into two worlds: ideal and real where ideal goods are higher than real ones.
There are three theses concerning it:
1. Goods make hierarchies
2. On the top of a hierarchy there is not any of real goods but the ideal Good.
3. Real goods are the beginning, unavoidable stage on the way to the top. Love is nothing else but the Wright timing for achieving and eternal possession of Good. The first object of love are Real goods, In the course of time awareness is born, that beauty of souls is greater than beauty of bodies. Through real, relative and finished mundane goals one can reach for ideal, absolute, immortal goals which is a sense of love. Through the love for an idea of souls a human becomes a middleman between the real world and the ideal world.
