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Which is NOT Socrates' position on death in the Apology?
{ 1 } - It is certainly the greatest evil a man can experience.
{ 2 } - No one knows whether it is the greatest blessing.
{ 3 } - One must practice philosophy at the risk of death.
{ 4 } - To fear it is to claim to know what one does not.
{ 5 } - One must risk it if commanded to do so by one's superior.
{ 6 } - It is wrong to choose dishonor in preference to it.
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Which is NOT Socrates' position on death in the Apology?
{ 1 } - It is certainly the greatest evil a man can experience.
{ 2 } - No one knows whether it is the greatest blessing.
{ 3 } - One must practice philosophy at the risk of death.
{ 4 } - To fear it is to claim to know what one does not.
{ 5 } - One must risk it if commanded to do so by one's superior.
{ 6 } - It is wrong to choose dishonor in preference to it.
Socrates' point is that dishonor and disobedience are worse, for they are known evils, whereas death is not a known evil.
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Which is NOT Socrates' position on death in the Apology?
{ 1 } - It is certainly the greatest evil a man can experience.
{ 2 } - No one knows whether it is the greatest blessing.
{ 3 } - One must practice philosophy at the risk of death.
{ 4 } - To fear it is to claim to know what one does not.
{ 5 } - One must risk it if commanded to do so by one's superior.
{ 6 } - It is wrong to choose dishonor in preference to it.
See 29a.
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Which is NOT Socrates' position on death in the Apology?
{ 1 } - It is certainly the greatest evil a man can experience.
{ 2 } - No one knows whether it is the greatest blessing.
{ 3 } - One must practice philosophy at the risk of death.
{ 4 } - To fear it is to claim to know what one does not.
{ 5 } - One must risk it if commanded to do so by one's superior.
{ 6 } - It is wrong to choose dishonor in preference to it.
See 29d
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Which is NOT Socrates' position on death in the Apology?
{ 1 } - It is certainly the greatest evil a man can experience.
{ 2 } - No one knows whether it is the greatest blessing.
{ 3 } - One must practice philosophy at the risk of death.
{ 4 } - To fear it is to claim to know what one does not.
{ 5 } - One must risk it if commanded to do so by one's superior.
{ 6 } - It is wrong to choose dishonor in preference to it.
See 29a.
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Which is NOT Socrates' position on death in the Apology?
{ 1 } - It is certainly the greatest evil a man can experience.
{ 2 } - No one knows whether it is the greatest blessing.
{ 3 } - One must practice philosophy at the risk of death.
{ 4 } - To fear it is to claim to know what one does not.
{ 5 } - One must risk it if commanded to do so by one's superior.
{ 6 } - It is wrong to choose dishonor in preference to it.
See 29b.
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Which is NOT Socrates' position on death in the Apology?
{ 1 } - It is certainly the greatest evil a man can experience.
{ 2 } - No one knows whether it is the greatest blessing.
{ 3 } - One must practice philosophy at the risk of death.
{ 4 } - To fear it is to claim to know what one does not.
{ 5 } - One must risk it if commanded to do so by one's superior.
{ 6 } - It is wrong to choose dishonor in preference to it.
See 28d.
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