Socrates to judge his condition happy . Accordingly , good activity is sufficient for happiness virtue itself is not needed . But once the opportunity for good activity has been taken away , as it has been by his conviction , and since he considers all of the possible penalties other than paying a fine to be evils (Ap . 37b5-e2 , Socrates no longer counts his life as worthwhile , claiming that he will be better off dead , even if death is nothing more than utter extinction...











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