First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, June 1st, 2001
Socrates died 2,400 years ago this June. More precisely, he was executed, a criminal condemned on a capital charge. How seriously Athens took her philosophers! It fills the modern scholar with envy more than dread, that one could die for such a cause. The formal charge that cost Socrates his life--"Socrates is guilty of not believing in the gods the city believes in, and of introducing other strange divinities; and he is guilty of corrupting the young"--has set philosophers to offering apologia ever since, as if in defending Socrates from this charge philosophy can define and understand itself...
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