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Answering the Socratic Question |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Thomas Fleming |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1988 |
| Size: 3,661 Words, 22,235 Characters |
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THE TRIAL OF SOCRATES
I.F. Stone
Boston: Little, Brown, 1988
267 pp., $18.95
The trial and execution of Socrates has provided material for countless legends, paintings, and dramatic re-creations of the historical events. Since most of what we know is derived from two of the martyr's disciples, Plato and Xenophon--both remarkably gifted storytellers--Socrates has gone down in history as the innocent victim of ignorance and bigotry. Simultaneously, of course, the Athenian people who condemned him to death have also been immortalized as the most civilized and enlightened community of the ancient world, the creators of art and philosophy, and the first nation to experiment seriously with democracy.
In the other great "witch hunts" of human history, modern spectato...
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... politicians to thank. Law is, as legal historian Alan Watson writes, "the culture of lawyers." It should be the culture of a nation. Until Americans recover a sense of their nationhood, that national community persisting across the generations, we shall continue to give the glib, dishonest answers of an I.F. Stone to the profound political questions raised by the trial and death of Socrates.
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