During his stay in New Orleans he proclaimed martial law, and carried out his measures with unrelenting sternness, banishing from the town a judge who attempted resistance. Of Spain and afterwards for many more the object of his unrelenting hostility, was by birth an Aragonese.
With the unjust execution of Socrates in mind, Aristotle chose to flee Athens, lest the Athenians sin twice against philosophy , as he said, and died a year later in 322 BCE.
The trial and execution of Socrates in Athens in 399 B.C.E. puzzles historians. Why, in a society enjoying more freedom and democracy than any the world had ever seen, would a seventy-year-old philosopher be put to death for what he was teaching?