Just some notes on Socrates and the Trial of the Generals.
Date Submitted: 10/29/2001 09:26:59
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 13 pages (3441 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 13 pages (3441 words)
406BC. At the battle of Arginousai, although the Athenians won, some of their ships were sunk. When the Peloponnesian fleet fled the remainder of the Athenian fleet left in pursuit, leaving the Athenian survivors in the water. Some managed to swim to shore; most drowned, and few bodies were recovered. The 8 generals in command of the fleet were tried by the assembly of citizens in an unconstitional manner: by law the generals should have been …
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…character say in the few lines which survive:
"Cursed be all those who rejoice to see the city in the hands of a single man or under the yoke of a few men! The name of a freeman is the most precious of titles: to possess it is to have much, even when one has little."
Yes, cursed be Socrates, Plato, and all the "intellectual" petty Hitlers, Stalins, FDRs and other big-government butt kissers since.
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