Socrates' Death And It's Ethic Meaning In Life

Socrates'death is a famous event an Western history and the reason of his death becomes a eternal mystery. Socrates'all life was discovering and searching the ethics, his ethic view was made a ethical system for Western., and more he used his death to demonstrate the importance of ethic. Socrates'death is closely releated to his ethical thought, such as to say his death is a rational choice under the leading of his owen ethical thought. Socrates view that virtue is above all, people who has virtue will have happiness. The beginning of happiness life is built on the basic of realise youself. After that you will know you are ignorance and start to get more knowledge to make you wisdom. Socrates think that virtue is knowledge, people who has virtue is mean has wisdom, that is the highest goodness. Under such ethical thought, Socrates facing the unjust judge choose death for searching virtue. To our moral crisis in modern social, the ethical meaning of Socrates'death can provid some advice. Socrates use his all life to examine himself until death for a life of virtue. Such examining is a rational spirit, we can use it to have a virtue or happiness life. Socrates'death is also indicate a searching for faith, so our moral crisis can use it to release. And then Socrates'death indicate a emphasize of own moral autonomy. Troughing the improving of own moral to achieve the entire human race'happiness. The buliding of modern ethics can combine the own moral and the social ethic form it. Socrates'death indicate a yearning of rational spirite and virtue life, it builts a spiritual home for human life, that is the highest meaning of Socrates'death.