The Bleak Political Implications of Socratic Religion
(Sprache: Englisch)
This book poses a radical challenge to the legend of Socrates bequeathed by Plato and echoed by scholars through the ages: that Socrates was an innocent sage convicted and sentenced to death by the democratic mob, for merely questioning the political and...
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This book poses a radical challenge to the legend of Socrates bequeathed by Plato and echoed by scholars through the ages: that Socrates was an innocent sage convicted and sentenced to death by the democratic mob, for merely questioning the political and religious ideas of his time. This legend conceals an enigma: How could a sage who was pious and good be so closely associated with the treasonous Alcibiades, who betrayed Athens in the Peloponnesian war? How could Critias and Charmides, who launched a reign of terror in Athens after her defeat, have been among his students and closest associates?The book makes the case for the prosecution, denouncing the religion of Socrates for inciting a radical politics of absolutism and monism that continues to plague Western civilization. It is time to recognize that Socrates was no liberator of the mind, but quite the contrary-he was the architect of a frightful authoritarianism, which continues to manifest itself, not only in Islamic terror, but also in liberal foreign policy. Defending Homer and the tragic poets, the book concludes that the West has imbibed from the wrong Greeks.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Bleak Political Implications of Socratic Religion “
1. The Political Case Against Socrates.- 2. The Religious Case Against Socrates.- 3. The Defense.- 4. How Plato Legitimizes the Case for the Prosecution.- 5. Plato's Critique of Homer Repudiated.- 6. The Tragic Poets Defended.- 7. Socratic Mischief.Autoren-Porträt von Shadia B. Drury
Shadia B. Drury is Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada at University of Regina, CN. She is author of Aquinas and Modernity (2008), Terror and Civilization (2004), Leo Strauss and the American Right (1997), Alexandre Kojève: The Roots of Postmodern Politics (1994), The Political Ideas of Leo Strauss (updated Edition, 2005), and is a regular contributor to Free Inquiry.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Shadia B. Drury
- 2018, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017, XVII, 271 Seiten, Maße: 15,2 x 21,2 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 3319853937
- ISBN-13: 9783319853932
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"This book is a provocative, polemical variation on the Nietzschean themes that Socratic philosophy was the will to power of an ugly man against a culture of beauty and that Christianity was Platonism for the masses. ... The book is a helpful reminder to contemporary scholarship that the ironic Plato also had a reformist side to elevate democracy's apolitical focus on bodily needs. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." (W. J. Coats, Choice, Vol. 55 (5), January, 2018)Kommentar zu "The Bleak Political Implications of Socratic Religion"
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