Location
Inman E. Page Library, Room 100
Start Date
11-10-2017 11:00 AM
End Date
11-10-2017 11:50 AM
Description
Both Plato and Socrates would support the removal of confederate monuments because they thought that it was bad for communities to endorse harmful ideas. However, their explanations as to how harmful ideas such as white supremacy and slavery are bad for the communities are different. I shall be arguing that Socrates, not Plato, got it right and why that makes a difference.
Comments by Laurence Rohrer
Included in
Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion Commons, United States History Commons
Plato, Socrates and the Removal of Confederate Monuments
Inman E. Page Library, Room 100
Both Plato and Socrates would support the removal of confederate monuments because they thought that it was bad for communities to endorse harmful ideas. However, their explanations as to how harmful ideas such as white supremacy and slavery are bad for the communities are different. I shall be arguing that Socrates, not Plato, got it right and why that makes a difference.
