One worry is just that Socrates is preoccupied with truth, and fiction doesn’t even aim at truth directly. APPIAH I don’t think it’s terribly helpful to try to say when philosophy begins. But I think that this play brings out the fact that there can be a conflict between the philosopher and the polity. Socrates thinks that the search for truth is the search for how to live, because he thinks that if you know the truth, it will tell you how to live. For him, the search for truth is an ethical thing, it’s about guiding the conduct of your life.

Source: New York Times April 11, 2019 19:17 UTC