EAN: 9783319853932

THE BLEAK POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF SOCRATIC RE...

This book poses a radical challenge to the legend of Socrates bequeathed by Plato and echoed by
scholars through the ages: that Socrates was an innocent sage convicted and sentenced to death
by the democratic mob  for merely questioning the political and religious ideas of his time.
This legend conceals an enigma: How could a sage who was pious and good be so closely
associated with the treasonous Alcibiades  who betrayed Athens in the Peloponnesian war? How
could Critias and Charmides  who launched a reign of terror in Athens after her defeat  have
been among his students and closest associates? The book makes the case for the prosecution 
denouncing the religion of Socrates for inciting a radical politics of absolutism and monism
that continues to plague Western civilization. It is time to recognize that Socrates was no
liberator of the mind  but quite the contrary-he was the architect of a frightful
authoritarianism  which continues to manifest itself  not only in Islamic terror  but also in
liberal foreign policy. Defending Homer and the tragic poets  the book concludes that the West
has imbibed from the wrong Greeks.

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