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Robert Hunger-Bühler, actor, director, winner of the Swiss Theatre Prize and former long-time ensemble member at the Schauspielhaus Zürich, reads the APOLOGY OF SOCRATES, the legendary defence speech of the Greek master philosopher, in a new translation by the philologist Kurt Steinmann.
It is a dramatic key scene in the history of philosophy – and at the same time a low point in democratic morality: the execution of the Athenian philosopher Socrates by an utterly biased and prejudiced polis judiciary. We owe to Socrates' pupil Plato the record of the defence speech which, although it did not save the life of the freest, most level-headed and unprejudiced mind of the ancient world, ensured that his memory was honoured and remains unparalleled to this day.
