This is an excerpt from How to Think Like Socrates. You can listen to the audiobook on Audible. The Melian Dialogue provides a notorious example of political brutality, which stands in stark contrast to Socratic ethics. While other intellectuals, such as the Sophists, were encouraging this sort of amoral thinking, Socrates was warning his students th…
Might is Right: The Melian Dialogue
Exclusive excerpt from How to Think Like Socrates
