2006-12-29 06:39:17 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I think you are referring to Aristole. "The story that his death was due to hemlock poisoning, as well as the legend that he threw himself into the sea "because he could not explain the tides," are without historical foundation."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle
Or maybe Socrates.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates
2006-12-29 06:42:47 · answer #1 · answered by chieromancer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it's Socrates you're thinking of - Socrates was trying to show that a virtuous man will obey the rule of law (he was condemned to death by the Athenians), and that death was nothing to be feared, because the soul is indestructible and eternal, surviving death.
2006-12-29 15:25:16 · answer #2 · answered by Underground Man 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
David Gale.
2006-12-29 15:08:21 · answer #3 · answered by ♥Princess♥ 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
socrates. the point that he was trying to make was that if he died it, history would remember him as a wise man. maybe, he was not as smart as he thought.
2006-12-29 15:04:02 · answer #4 · answered by Book'm Dano 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That dead professor guy who nobody remembers
2006-12-29 14:52:33 · answer #5 · answered by barter256 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know, but he's an idiot.
2006-12-29 14:41:47 · answer #6 · answered by cory m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋