An absolutist Socrates?
Socrates is often revered as a founder of western philosophy. But some of his views are strikingly at odds with our contemporary ideas of freedom. In particular, he seems to have a deeply absolutist conception of the state's authority as expressed in the Platonic dialogue Crito ...
Understanding Society · An absolutist SocratesWe often think of Socrates as the ultimate “critical free thinker”. He antagonized many in Athens through his relentless questioning of shared assumptions about ethics, the gods, and th…