Socrates’ way of life is the consequence of his recognition that we can
know what it is that we do not know about the most important things and
that we are by nature obliged to seek that knowledge...I am now even more persuaded of the urgent need to study why Socrates was accused.
The dislike of philosophy is perennial, and the seeds of the condemnation of Socrates are present at all times,
not in the bosoms of pleasure-seekers, who don’t give a damn, but in
those of high-minded and idealistic persons who do not want to submit
their aspirations to examination
-Allan Bloom,
Giants and Dwarfs, “Western Civ,” (1990) pg 18 - 19
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