Socrates Recovered From the Shaming of the Clouds

Alex petcus: socrates exemplified the basic virtues that all good people admired, even if they were terrible at actually defining those virtues. He was courageous in battle, exceptionally so and totally unmoved by the fear of death. When he was presented with the opportunity to flee his punishment for allegedly corrupting the youth in three 99 b c, when he was sentenced to death, he decided to stay put in athens. If he hadn't, who would now remember the name of socrates? So how does a wise man deal with public shaming? First of all, by living a life of virtue that is, by definition, most resist ant to such a thing. And then,