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How are we to understand
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this case about toleration and freedom of speech?
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The Apology presents Socrates
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right as presenting the most intransigent case
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for the philosopher
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as a radical critic or questioner of society.
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Socrates demands that the Athenians change
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not simply this or that aspect of their policy
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but he demands nothing less than a drastic,
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I would even say revolutionary,
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change in Athenian civic life,
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in Athenian civic culture.