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We talked about 9/11 for a little while what happened and where some people were during that time. Then we went into more detail about Socrates and how he admitted to doing what he was on trial for and how he should be rewarded for it. As a young man he worked as a stonemason he fought historically in the Peloponnesian war. Socrates believed that he can not teach anyone anything he can only make them think he was on trial for corruption of Athens' youth and impiety (not believing in the gods of the state). In the end he lost his trial 279-221 sentenced to death by drinking poison hemlock he had the opportunity to escape but he refused. An idiot in Athenian democracy was someone private declining to take part in public life. The examined life is not worth living.

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