Socrates: Political Thought Politics Essay
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The ennobling depiction of Socratic rhetoric that appears there serves also as a powerful, if the implicit, critique of the dangers posed to young men, such as Meno, by an enthusiasm for a pure, calculating political rationalism (such as seems exhibited in modern rational choice theory) and by a hubristic reliance upon certain unexamined opinions about human beings and the nature of the rule.