00:00What was Socrates essentially saying?
00:03He said, nothing else is virtuous.
00:07If you know what is good, what is right, then you deserve respect.
00:13Otherwise, respect in itself is not a virtue.
00:16Nothing is a virtue in itself.
00:18Only wisdom is a virtue in itself.
00:23And a lot of young people listened to him,
00:27including people like Plato, Xeno, Xenophone.
00:31The young men started discarding tradition and hierarchy.
00:37They said, no, no, not that we want to be disrespectful.
00:42But please, first of all, can we have a conversation?
00:46That was the method of Socrates.
00:48He would always say, we want to talk.
00:50So the result was that the public opinion
00:55among those in positions of power and authority,
01:01grew very fearful and hateful of Socrates.
01:08They said, he is corrupting our youth.
01:12And as is very famously known, he was sentenced to death.
01:18Right?
01:20Drink hemlock, they told him.
01:22And he accepted that.
01:24Poised, composed.
01:27And in front of his favourite disciples,
01:32he poorly breathed his last.
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