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Three dissident Right philosophers discussed Greg Johnson‘s book The Trial of Socrates during the second meeting of the Counter-Currents Book Club: F. Roger Devlin (author of Sexual Utopia in Power), Mike Maxwell of Imperium Press, and the author himself. All of the participants have an academic background in philosophy. The trial of Socrates is a pivotal event in world history. Before Socrates, philosophy had put society on trial. Now society was striking back. The recording of the stream is now available for download and online listening. Find out what some of the leading luminaries of our movement have to say about this defining moment of our civilization.

Topics discussed include:

00:0:26 Enter F. Roger Devlin
00:3:10 On the Invisible College
00:11:55 Socrates as a pre-Socratic philosopher
00:21:46 On Aristophanes
00:26:16 Who were the Sophists?
00:43:49 On Plato’s Theages
00:53:04 On eros
00:58:23 Enter Mike Maxwell
01:16:34 What is meant by myth?
01:21:24 The account of the afterlife in the Gorgias
01:29:12 Did the Greeks believe in their myths?
01:35:01 Ancient Egyptian conceptions of polytheism and monotheism
02:07:45 Question about the Myth of Er and reincarnation

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