Dateline Athens: I.F. Stone Reopens The Socrates Case From: The Washington Post | Date: February 14, 1988| Author: Allan Bloom | Copyright 1988 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

THE TRIAL OF SOCRATES

By I.F. Stone

Little, Brown. 282 pp. $18.95

SOCRATES, the very embodiment of philosophy as a way of life, was tried and executed by the Athenian democracy for not believing in the city's gods and for corrupting the youth.

Every important thinker since has had to come to terms with this most portentous of intellectual events. Is there a tension between man's high aspiration to know what is natural and the concern for the conventional opinio...

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