Today in class we went over our five point plan homework
about how to insure a successful freshmen year at John Caroll which was
assigned to us last Friday. We also discussed the multiple definitions we were
supposed to blog about over the weekend. Agora is a gathering place in ancient
Greece, The year 508 BC was when democracy was established in Athens when the
people overcame their previous leader. We went over the Greek's ideas of
excellence (otherwise known as arête) and went into great depth of the death of
Socrates. Socrates was a Greek philosopher who was charged for questioning
Greek's leaders and corrupting the youth. He was given the option to either
drink a deadly poison called hemlock, or be punished to exile. He chose to die
and turned down every opportunity that came is way to escape. Socrates would
rather die than be known as a coward.
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