Born in completely different situations at completely different historical moments, you might think that Socrates and Virginia Woolf might have a very different idea of the concept of freedom. Socrates never got to experience the freedom of religion that every American knows as a fundamental right enshrined in the Constitution. Woolf, on the other hand, only had an eye on women's equality and only for her financial stability. Although both Socrates and Woolf knew that they had not been given a fair chance at freedom, they both wanted to let others understand what they were going through so that when change came, which they both knew it would, people could look back on the past and conceptualize how far the world has come. So really the question Socrates was never allowed to believe what he thought was right. Athenian democracy would not allow it. It was confined to religious beliefs that the gods who created everything in the city of Athens, as well as in all of Greece, were the only powerful beings and that believing in any other spirit was completely wrong. However, Socrates believed that a person should not be bound to a rigid set of rules and that by doing so he was simply conforming to the regular belief held by
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