Blog Day Thirty-One: Why Did The Philosopher Emerge Now?

After the war, many philosophers and their beliefs emerged in Athens. They appeared to settle and challenge the minds of Athenians. After the war, there was a stormed that caused the generals and their ships not to be able to save all the men that were tossed overboard during the battle. The Athenian people were not happy about this at all, when the generals got home. They were so upset that the tossed all the generals in prison to charge them for their lives. Socrates was one of the people who didn't think that the men should be punished for what they did. Sadly, Socrates was only one person and the generals ended up drinking poison hemlock to die. Philosophers emerged now to have people question their life and the decisions they make. Philosopher, like Protagoras, wanted people to question their ideas about justice and other moral and traditional values they had. Protagoras did not believe there was any universal standard of truth. Quite the opposite of him, was Socrates. Socrates did believe in truth and justice. He once said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." Some people adored these men's ideas, and others were just puzzled by them. Philosophers emerged at this time in history because people needed some type of answer to the questions they had about life and war.