u/Burner__Account123

I know very little ancient history so sorry if this is a stupid question. The title says it all, but to clarify, why did Plato and Aristotle not receive public censure like Socrates? What was the Athenian government's treatment of philosophy or approach to censorship at the time? Aristotle's views on cosmology alone seem pretty strongly revisionist in regard to Hellenic polytheism. Now, I understand that Christian understandings of heresy and dogma are anachronistic when applied to antiquity, so I'm just wandering why exactly it seemed that these two could discuss politics and religion so freely.