The Willful Death Of An Outrageous Genius
Socrates has a death wish. Older age has rendered him mad, and when he speaks before the court in Xenophon's Socrates' Defense before the Jury, he is seeking out death. It is clear that "Socrates had already come to consider death preferable to life," but what the reader may overlook is the controlled zeal with which he addresses the subject of his passing. Because his growing psychosis is such a well-kept secret, as well as how intelligent we know him to be, Socrates comes off to most people as normal; however, his rationalizations leave many things unexplained such as why a man of such free thought would succumb to the will of others. It is extraordinarily evident that Socrates is, in fact, in search of death, and that the reasons he argues for its occurrence are false justification for his real motive.
Socrates' mind has spent a lifetime in deep contemplation of the world, and is sure to have been strained and tested to the maximum possible capacity over time. This mind......
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