© Darrell Arnold Ph.D.– (Reprinted with Permission) https://darrellarnold.com/2018/09/25/socrates-2-the-trial-and-death/ Socrates is philosophy’s most famous martyr. Yet he wasn’t the first tried in the courts of Athens. The Decree of Diopeithes allowed for the persecution of  “those who fail to respect (nomizein) things divine or teach theories about the heavens” (OCD). It had been used against Anaxagoras, who … Continue reading Socrates: The Trail And Death