Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Past Present Future
Episode: Politics on Trial: Socrates vs Democracy
Description: The first political trial in our new series is the one that set the template for all the others: the trial of Socrates in Athens in 399 BCE, which ended with a death sentence for the philosopher and a permanent stain on the reputation of Athenian democracy. Why, after a lifetime of philosophy, was Socrates finally prosecuted at the age of 70? Was the case motivated by private grievance or public outrage? What should Socrates have said in his own defence? Why, in the end, did he choose defiance instead?
Out on Saturday on PPF+: Socrates part 2 - David...