Truth is important if most activities are outlawed and you spend most of your life on jury duty. But once you can admit the actual-truth---most things don't harm others---then you can have a bill of rights and only spend a few days a year on jury duty for real crimes
I can almost hear the title sung by Depeche Mode and the beginning lyrics:
Refute and lose faith
Your own intellectual Jesus
Someone to share your airs
Someone who cares
Your own intellectual Jesus
Someone to share your airs
Someone who's rare
Feeling unknown and you're all alone
Nous and phrone by the telephone
Lift up the receiver, I'll refute you believer
... but that's where that goofy inspiration runs out of steam. "Refute and lose faith" is going to be stuck in my head.
Sharp and substantive review, so I'll be interested to see the follow-up discussion here.
What if we *shouldn't* be like Socrates?
https://jsbiehl.substack.com/p/for-the-love-of-what
Truth is important if most activities are outlawed and you spend most of your life on jury duty. But once you can admit the actual-truth---most things don't harm others---then you can have a bill of rights and only spend a few days a year on jury duty for real crimes
As all teachers, Socrates needed a union