for kim wood rewrite

Read the book  <the trial of socrates by six classic texts C.D.C.REEVE and write the 2 pages double space MLA format Journal.

Also Include a quote from the <Daodejing> (by Laozi) and discuss a passage from the Daodejing, giving your analysis of how Laozi’s thought connects, or doesn’t, to the ideas expressed in your discussion above.

Cite. Journal entries may not be made up at a later date.

The Journal should discus you idea or you thought related to the book.

These posts are a place to process each text, usually at the beginning of a text, to figure out what the main difficulties of the text are, the main ideas for you, and to demonstrate the thoroughness of your effort to share what it’s like for you to read this text and what it’s about. Each journal must follow the guidelines below: · Think abstractly about the text and share the main ideas. You might brainstorm a few keywords first before writing to make sure you’re describing the big ideas. If you wish, you could use these keywords as a title for the blog. Not a summary. Tell your readers what the text is about at an analytical level, sharing underlying themes, motifs, issues. · Most compelling idea: what’s most important, interesting, agreeable

Here is the example of my classmate's journal:

The Trials of Socrates talks about who Socrates defended himself from accusation. The story was in 399 B.C. when people blamed Socrates of misleading young people to not believe in the Gods that the people in the city beloved in. Socrates never delayed what he had done, indeed, he was brave and face unjust circumstances which was the capital punishment.

At the beginning I did not understand the text and I was really confused. It was not clear to me who was Euthyphro, and whether the text was telling a story or thoughts and memories. However, after our class dictions and reading more and more in the book, I ended up understanding the main ideas of the book and I really found it fascinated and it has many wise conversations and thoughts. For example, “now is there anyone who be harmed rather than benefited by those around?” (Line 25d, 39) this question made me think very deep while reading it. The question let me wonder how many people we thought that we loved then they harmed us whether because they promised to stay with us, then they dead, or the left. And how many people we thought that they were our best fiends then they were the only people who deceived us. I had this question in one of my cards it says, “Is telling the truth always good?” I answered myself after I raised that question. Telling the truth is something that we cannot call it good or bad because it is harmful for a side and restful for another. In Socrates case, it was both restful and harmful. Restful because he did not have to blaming himself of doing something shameful, and it was harmful because people at the city wanted to get rid of him due to his beliefs.

I found that what Socrates did was like what the Daodejing said in chapter seventy-one, “To know that one does not know is best; Not to know but to believe that one knows is a disease. Only by seeing this disease as a disease can be free of it. Sages are free of this disease; because they see this disease as disease, they are free of it” (74). We would never know the reason that get Socrates to tell the truth, but it would let us know that he had much courage to never ran of the circumstances of that truth.