As he sought truth, he shared the truth he found with the people of Athens. For his teachings, Socrates was eventually put on trial in Athens in BC. The Apology, written by his student Plato, is a dialogue that claims to be a record of Socrates's speech for his defense in the trial.
Whether it is, in fact, the natural speech or a dramatization of it, it still tells us a lot about Socrates and his beliefs. A topic that repeatedly appears in his defense is death, which is unsurprising considering death was a possible penalty for his alleged crime of impiety.
In his discussion of death itself and his general behavior on trial, Socrates reveals a lot about his thoughts on death.
In my reading, I concluded that Socrates does not fear death because he does not fear the unknown, he is willing to profess the truth even if it leads to his death, and Socrates did not ask for mercy or try to arouse pity. The first reason I believe Socrates does not fear death is that Socrates does not fear the unknown. On page 33, Socrates says: "To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
No one knows whether death may be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they know it is the greatest of all evils. One of the things that made Socrates a great philosopher is how he was able to admit what he did not know and instead pursue truth on topics he wasn't knowledgeable about.
To him, death is not scary because there is no guarantee that death is bad. He doesn't know what's in store for him when he dies, and that's why he doesn't fear it: dying is an opportunity to learn about what happens to those who die. At the end of the same page, Socrates says: "I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know, whether they may be good rather than things that I know to be bad.
Socrates sees death as something completely unknown, and he states he is not afraid of what he doesn't know. JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser.
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