If you read Plato's Crito, you'd know the answer was yes.
Socrates, wrongly convicted of corrupting the youth of Athens, making the weaker argument appear the stronger, and going barefoot even in winter, is sentenced to die by drinking hemlock. This would be a ridiculously easy sentence to evade, as he could just leave town and take a lucrative teaching job anywhere else in Greece or even Asia Minor, as indeed, many of his disciples urge him to do and the court probably assumed he would when they sentenced him to drink poison on his own recognizance at home.
Did Socrates do that? No, because he was a stubborn jackass. Instead he gave a long speech / lesson about civic ethics and how by residing in Athens he chose to follow her laws snd how he'd rather die in New York than live anywhere else and neener neener fuck you and then chugged the hemlock like a champ. Benefits of being semi-fictional, I guess.
So yes, to someone like Plato's Socrates, the glass of poison was half-full.
Yes.
If you read Plato's Crito, you'd know the answer was yes.
Socrates, wrongly convicted of corrupting the youth of Athens, making the weaker argument appear the stronger, and going barefoot even in winter, is sentenced to die by drinking hemlock. This would be a ridiculously easy sentence to evade, as he could just leave town and take a lucrative teaching job anywhere else in Greece or even Asia Minor, as indeed, many of his disciples urge him to do and the court probably assumed he would when they sentenced him to drink poison on his own recognizance at home.
Did Socrates do that? No, because he was a stubborn jackass. Instead he gave a long speech / lesson about civic ethics and how by residing in Athens he chose to follow her laws snd how he'd rather die in New York than live anywhere else and neener neener fuck you and then chugged the hemlock like a champ. Benefits of being semi-fictional, I guess.
So yes, to someone like Plato's Socrates, the glass of poison was half-full.
!(^1/2^ a
chance)