Inventing Socrates

Inventing Socrates is a book about the consequences of knowledge and the coming of age. It is written in knowledge''s Western setting, making allegorical as well as literal use of the event known as the ''birth of philosophy'' – an event that began in ancient Greece in the 6th-century B.C., when a handful of thinkers first looked at the natural world through the critical eyes of fledgling science.

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