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Is Socrates the ideal democratic citizen?(Critical essay)
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Journal of Thought
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December 22, 2006
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In extremis, radical reflection and civic reverence might indeed appear to be irreconcilable, yet the founder of all inquiry reconciled them precisely in his death: He was condemned to die because he refused to cease asking questions, and he was executed because he declined to flout his city's laws by running away. --Eva T.H. Brann, Paradoxes of Education in a Republic
From time immemorial, the most penetrating students of politics from Plato, Aristotle, and Rousseau to Nietzsche have revealed and pondered the fundamental tension between politics and philosophy or, stated differently, order and freedom. A regime--any regime--must establish and maintain a measure of ...
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