It’s not very often that I read a book that captivated me. This one I can say I read through as fast as I could as responsibilities allowed. You can say I felt similar to Nietzsche when he first read Schopenhauer. This book is the dissertation of one Costin Alamariu, but don’t be turned off by the idea that it’s a “dissertation.” It’s a book that explains the thesis of Alamariu: that the discrimination and slander against the philosophers which culminated in the execution of Socrates was WARRANTED. What?! There had been the argument on part of the Grek polis that the philosophers were really wannabe TYRANTS and one of them, Critias — a student of Socrates — actually tried to become one.
Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy by Costin Alamariu
I also thought the inclusion of Chiron was a powerful symbol