Week 1-2

In the book "How Socrates Died," When Socrates is in his cell Euthyphro visits him and right away you can see how Socrates views the world, by how he questions Euth. Him and Euth are talking about piety which Socrates pretends he does not know anything of the matter to see how wise Euth really is. During this conversation Socrates questions Euth on what piety and impiety truly means. Socrates way of asking questions and getting people to question their beliefs is what got him sentenced to death. Socrates was to be scheduled for his death for breaking two laws in Athene. The laws that he was being accused of included corrupting the youth with his teachings and not believing in the gods the Athenians were accustomed to. The punishment was death by drinking a cup of poison. Socrates was a curious man and asked many questions to get the answers he desired. His questions to Athenians looked like he did not believe in the religion and could possibly ruin their way of life and religion.



In "The Great Mystery: Matter vs Spirit," it goes over why there are some conflicts between religion and science. As Kant states in the book, "we are limited to what we can see through devices." That being said science can only bring so much to what we can learn. If you look in a microscope you can see that objects are made of matter but you can not see any further past that, it's left a mystery. That mystery is where religion comes in and creates conflict. Religious people may say that a higher power created the atoms, while scientist will say we can not say until our technology allows us to examine it further past what we can see. Religion has been around for a long time and science is new and constantly changing, it is hard to not have conflicting sides when people have been taught the same thing for years and years and then science comes and says differently. There will never be peace between the two until they find a common ground where they both agree upon the same idea.