ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1989
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Izdavač: Picador, London
Autor: Isidor Feinstein Stone
Povez: broširan
Broj strana: 282
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How could ancient Athens, a society that prized and protected free speech, have condemned Socrates to death? Readily, in Stone`s estimation. The philosopher we meet on these pages is an arrogant, bullying elitist who welcomed death and did his best to antagonize the jury that sentenced him. Socrates`s mock modesty and aloofness irked his interrogators. His open disdain for democracy did not play well in a city-state recently convulsed by temporary throwbacks to dictatorship.

Stone, the famed, feisty political journalist, spent over a decade learning classical Greek and delving into primary sources. He not only exposes the social snobbery lurking behind Socrates`s dismissal of Athenian democracy, but also attacks the class prejudice underlying his hostility toward the Sophists, teachers who challenged the institution of slavery. In this iconoclastic portrait of a secular saint, Socrates emerges as a thoroughly dislikable, albeit superior, man who upheld unpopular truths.

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