Autor: Flanagan, Josef

Buch: Quest for Self-Knowledge

Titel: Quest for Self-Knowledge

Stichwort: common sense; Sokrates

Kurzinhalt: Allwissenheit des common sense; Anwendung von Gewalt am Beispiel Sokrates'

Textausschnitt: And the Athenians' way of removing this Socratic threat to their culturally assumed wisdom was to deal with Socrates in the way they dealt with their other enemies - by the use of force. In other words, the conventional way to solve such problems was, not to take Socrates' questions seriously, but to silence these disturbing questions and then justify the injustice through some form of symbolic cover-up.