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Article: The trial of Socrates.
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- February 27, 1988
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THE TRIAL OF SOCRATES
From this altogether engaging do-it-yourself detective kit, philological meander and owner's manual on free speech and class animus in ancient Athens, we learn as much about I.F. Stone as we do about Socrates. If Socrates felt himself to be too good for his world and almost everybody in it, Stone is the sort of Jeffersonian democrat quite at home in the messy quotidian, with his magnifying glass, inspecting the pores of the polis. The more Socrates goes on about absolute definitions of universals like Virtue, the more Stone wants him to get an honest job. They would not have liked each other in the agora or the Pryntaneum.
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