Truth and Mockery in Platon and in Modernity

Truth and Mockery in Platon and in Modernity

A New Perception of Platon's Euthyphron, Apology, Criton and Phaidon

by Dale Wilt Evans

276 pages· 2001· ISBN 9780595176298
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The modern world is preoccupied with correctness in its views of nature, government, economy and culture but at an unacceptable price. We find nature blind and indifferent and we now see culture as anything legally allowed. This insightful study examines the philosophy leading us here while showing how to change it. If we accept the integral role of mockery in truth we gain a more comprehensive view of ourselves and the world. In a perceptive study of four dialogues of Plato---the ones telling the story of Socrates' defense of philosophy----we find a pattern for our own growth. This book calls for renewed faith in an educated perception and in noble self-development. It speaks to discovering "heart and soul, not in an aesthetic diversion but in the nature of everything around us."

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