Massimo Pigliucci, "The Quest for Character: What the Story of Socrates and Alcibiades Teaches Us about Our Search for Good Leaders"
English | ISBN: 1541646975 | 2022 | 272 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1541646975 | 2022 | 272 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
What Socrates’s greatest failure reveals about an ancient question: Can we teach our leaders to be better people?
Is good character something that can be taught? In 430 BCE, Socrates set out to teach the vain, power-seeking Athenian statesman Alcibiades how to be a good person—and failed spectacularly. Alcibiades went on to beguile his city into a hopeless war with Syracuse, and all of Athens paid the price.
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