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Citing a few Athenians is basically the exception that proves the rules. Socrates in particular was executed for straying too far from community dogma. And this
by ch4s3 4y ago
Citing a few Athenians is basically the exception that proves the rules. Socrates in particular was executed for straying too far from community dogma. And this is one single city star during its golden age of philosophy. The whole history of humanity is a lot bigger that Greece in the 4th century bc.
- theknocker 4y ago[dead]
- somenameforme 4y agoSocrates was unique in his wisdom, yet hardly in his trend for debate. In literally all of human history for which we have even a semblance of reasonable record, there was widespread debate (which not infrequently would escalate to extremes) over essentially any topic imaginable. Even in topics that trend towards "natural" taboos, like religion, there has invariably been extreme debate. Again I don't really understand how you could think people just held "communal" views on "almost everything" in the past. Can you offer literally even a single supporting example?
- ch4s3 4y agoThere is morning fact widespread debate for as long as we have a written record. The first several hundred years of writing are basically commercial records, royal edicts, a few prescriptive religious texts, and some poetry. For example for most of human history, your community had a religion and set of etiologies explaining how the whole world worked. To disagree was to cast one’s self out of that community or to be cast out.