Post by sweetmel312 on Sept 2, 2015 21:15:10 GMT
Melissa Rodriguez
Essay Questions 1 and 2 or week 1 and 2:
1. Why was Socrates sentenced to death?
He was sentenced to death because he was corrupting the youth. As well as being impious, which is being unjust, or against religion. In Socrates’ time the majority of the people were very religious so to have someone going around and making people, particularly the youth, question all that they believed in, or taught to believe in was quite taboo and unforgivable. It was mostly looked upon as evil and they did not want anything to do with it, so the easiest way to keep evil away was to “dispose” of it. In my opinion many believed all that was evil was what they did not understand, did not know and that of which questioned religion. And according to the conversation that he was having with Euthyphro in “How Socrates died” he do play devils advocate with religion and making Euth understand the meaning of being pious and impious. Or even trying to give new meaning to the words. Which again was against what everyone else believed. “Taboo”.
2. Why is there a conflict (for some) between science and religion?
For many their beliefs, their religion is their whole life, their way of living. So when someone comes along and questions that it can be scary and enraging. Its like “how dare they say that I am wrong for believe this!” Or “what I believe in is not wrong!” For one people hate being wrong, and what can be more infuriating than to have someone question the way you believe, your life style, your life. Also how scary can it be to have a slight thought that what you believe in is wrong or not real. What is there to believe in, to live for than if you thing that all you have lived for is a lie?
So with all this rambling on about religion, my point and answer to the question is that science is that thing, or person so to speak, that questions religion. With science, there really cannot be religion. And that is the biggest conflict between science and religion.
Essay Questions 1 and 2 or week 1 and 2:
1. Why was Socrates sentenced to death?
He was sentenced to death because he was corrupting the youth. As well as being impious, which is being unjust, or against religion. In Socrates’ time the majority of the people were very religious so to have someone going around and making people, particularly the youth, question all that they believed in, or taught to believe in was quite taboo and unforgivable. It was mostly looked upon as evil and they did not want anything to do with it, so the easiest way to keep evil away was to “dispose” of it. In my opinion many believed all that was evil was what they did not understand, did not know and that of which questioned religion. And according to the conversation that he was having with Euthyphro in “How Socrates died” he do play devils advocate with religion and making Euth understand the meaning of being pious and impious. Or even trying to give new meaning to the words. Which again was against what everyone else believed. “Taboo”.
2. Why is there a conflict (for some) between science and religion?
For many their beliefs, their religion is their whole life, their way of living. So when someone comes along and questions that it can be scary and enraging. Its like “how dare they say that I am wrong for believe this!” Or “what I believe in is not wrong!” For one people hate being wrong, and what can be more infuriating than to have someone question the way you believe, your life style, your life. Also how scary can it be to have a slight thought that what you believe in is wrong or not real. What is there to believe in, to live for than if you thing that all you have lived for is a lie?
So with all this rambling on about religion, my point and answer to the question is that science is that thing, or person so to speak, that questions religion. With science, there really cannot be religion. And that is the biggest conflict between science and religion.