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The Socratic Individual - Philosophy, Faith, and Freedom in a Democratic Age (Paperback)
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The Socratic Individual - Philosophy, Faith, and Freedom in a Democratic Age (Paperback)
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The author explores the recovery of Socratic philosophy in the
political thought of G.W.F. Hegel, Soren Kierkegaard, John Stuart
Mill, and Friedrich Nietzsche. Ward identifies the cause of the
renewed interest in Socrates in Hegel's call for the absorption of
the individual within the modern, liberal state and the concomitant
claim that Socratic skepticism should cease because history has
reached its end and perfection. Recoiling from Hegel's attempt to
chain the individual within the "cave," nineteenth century thinkers
push back against his deification of the state. Yet, underlying
Kierkegaard, Mill and Nietzsche's turn to Socrates is their
acceptance of Hegel's critique of the liberal conception of the
rights-bearing individual. Like Hegel, they agree that such an
individual is an unworthy competitor to the state. In search of a
noble individual to hold up against the state and counter the
belief in the "end" of history, Kierkegaard, Mill and Nietzsche
bring back and transform Socrates in significant ways. For
Kierkegaard the Socratic philosopher in modern times is the person
of faith, for Mill the public intellectual whose idiosyncratic
identity arises from the freedom of speech, and for Nietzsche the
Dionysian artist. Each model the beauty of individuality in our
democratic age.
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