Tag: Socrates

• A Still Not Answered Question

  After the Nativity stories, a bit of philosophy for a change. Socrates was loved by those who enjoyed seeing know-alls, in public, tied in infuriating knots by his probing questions. He wasn’t loved by those on the receiving end. One day, he met a young man, called Euthyphro, on his way to court to accuse…

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  27th Dec 2022

  Christianity, History, Literature, Mythology, Philosophy, Religion

  Bible, Euthyphro, God, Goodness, Morality, Philosophy, Piety, Plato, Socrates

• The Banality of Evil

  The philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-75), exploring the idea of the ‘evil’ person as a ‘monster’, following the trial of Adolph Eichmann, described the “banality of evil”. She saw Eichmann as an unimaginative bureaucrat, a ‘self-less’ cog-in-a-machine, mindlessly carrying out his assigned duties without question. Getting railway wagons from A to B mattered, not whether they…

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  27th Nov 2022

  Consciousness, Current Affairs, History, Philosophy, Religion

  Auschwitz, Authenticity, Authority, Evil, Feeling, Holocaust, Philosophy, Socrates, Thinking