Did socratess philosophical lifestyle have the potential to


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Socrates compared Athenians to a dazed, sluggish horse that could possibly be awakened by the persistent biting of an (annoying!) fly. This idea of Socrates as a transformative "philosophical gadfly" inspired many who have read about Socrates's life and death.

Your formal writing assignment this week is to write a 600-900 word essay that answers each of the following questions

  • Did Socrates's philosophical lifestyle have the potential to "wake up" Athenians in a way that could have been useful to that society?
  • Does the importance of being awoken in that way justify the extreme manner that Socrates chose to live and die?
  • Do you agree that (to use a famous phrase from the eighteenth century Prussian philosopher Immanuel Kant), awakening an individual--or an entire society--from "dogmatic slumbers" is a constructive and useful role of raising probing philosophical questions? Is there a significant opportunity for philosophers or others to play this kind of constructive role in our own society?

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