Just another blog from my humanities class. we were learning about Socrates and had to write an insight about what we'd learned. this is what I wrote:
A very important and valid point that Socrates made in his Apology was that the fear of death is foolish and unneeded. Death is unknown to all those who haven't experienced it, and those who have aren't at liberty to discuss it. This gap in Man's knowledge makes him fear and despise it because he can't understand it. Socrates disparages this by pointing out that there's no way of knowing what death will be like, so it stands to reason that what comes after may be better than the present life now. He follows his own counsel and does not fear death, but embraces and welcomes it as a new and more exciting part of life that all must pass through.
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