Summary
Jean-Louis Cianni: Doctor Socrates: for times of crisis and disaster
Strikingly current, the "medicines" that "doctor" Socrates prescribes to every individual and citizen are more important than ever.
Jean-Louis Cianni, a French philosopher and journalist, pauses before the crisis of modern times - in the midst of omnipresent and overwhelming feelings of sadness and fear, intrusive anxiety and shaken reason - and tries to clarify thought and find coordinates from which would function anew in the whirlwind of modern man's feelings. Siani finds his starting point in ancient Athens, more precisely - in Socrates.
Although the crisis in the Athenian society of the fourth century BC is very different from the crises of the modern world, the basic human needs, as well as suffering, remain the same - this is precisely where Siani reaches for Socrates, who with his methods inductively provokes individuals to return to being, that is: to take care of themselves.
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