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Socrates can be connected to other teachers and philosophers and activists from history, such as Martin Luther. Like Socrates, Martin Luther went against social norms and spoke out against the widely followed religion of his time and place.

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Another early philosopher was Galileo he was also a scientist he has more in common with on of Socrates students He made many discoveries mostly about the stars and planets. He was the one who realized that the sun did not revolve around the earth by comparing the moon which he also discovered wasn't flat but round and rocky and had phases and the discovered that Venus also had phases which showed that it revolved around the sun.

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Most of what we know about Socrates comes from what his student, Plato, wrote about him.

He was voted by 501 men that he is guilty of not believing in the state approved gods and of leading the young people astray

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Socrates was sentenced to death for thinking, acting, speaking, and preaching against the government. Instead of fleeing from Athens to escape his punishment Socrates chose to instead drink poison and take his own life because he wanted to die a citizan of athens. Many of his students continued on with his work and believing his ideas, but were never sentenced as he was.

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The topic of our article is social because it is talk about how Socrates shred and he would teach his ideas to people who were willing to listen to him and who also wanted to learn from him and pass on his ideas of philosophy.