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Socrates on Trial: Philosophy Against the State. Truth, Democracy, and the Death of Athens' Greatest Questioner
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- Nombre de pages201
- FormatePub
- ISBN978-3-565-32682-2
- EAN9783565326822
- Date de parution15/03/2026
- Protection num.pas de protection
- Taille2 Mo
- Infos supplémentairesepub
- ÉditeurEmphaloz Publishing House
Résumé
In 399 BCE, Athens put one of its own citizens to death-not for treason or violence, but for asking too many questions. Socrates, the man who believed that "the unexamined life is not worth living, " became the first philosopher tried and executed by a democracy in defense of itself. His trial marks one of the most enduring confrontations between free thought and political authority.
This book reconstructs the world behind that moment: a city still reeling from war, humiliation, and political turmoil.
Drawing on Plato's dialogues, Xenophon's accounts, and Athenian legal records, it traces how public suspicion turned philosophy into subversion, and dialectic into danger. Athens feared Socrates not for what he said, but for what his method revealed-a society unsure of its own values. By following the stages of the trial and the reasoning of his accusers, this narrative probes the tension between devotion to truth and loyalty to the state.
In Socrates' final words, Western philosophy inherited both a martyr and a mirror-reflecting the peril that awaits any democracy when it fears dissent more than ignorance.
Drawing on Plato's dialogues, Xenophon's accounts, and Athenian legal records, it traces how public suspicion turned philosophy into subversion, and dialectic into danger. Athens feared Socrates not for what he said, but for what his method revealed-a society unsure of its own values. By following the stages of the trial and the reasoning of his accusers, this narrative probes the tension between devotion to truth and loyalty to the state.
In Socrates' final words, Western philosophy inherited both a martyr and a mirror-reflecting the peril that awaits any democracy when it fears dissent more than ignorance.
