Socrates According to Bettany Hughes

 Watch this wonderful video by Bettany, where she expresses her reverence for the legacy that Socrates left to humanity after living a life without deviating from the principles that his philosophy urged him to. Socrates chose to die for the demands of his philosophy and was therefore declared immortal.

 The video is available at: 

Genius of the Ancient World - Episode 2: Socrates (BBC documentary, 2015)

 Slso check: https://axiom1b.blogspot.com/2025/09/about-socrates-his-main-message-and.html

and: https://axiom1b.blogspot.com/2016/03/about-socrates-and-his-attitude-to.html

 As is clear from my blog, I am also a great admirer of Socrates and I have tried to organize my life according to his message 

Todde

PS. Another video by Bettany on Socrates and writing

The American Revolution

 The War of Independence

 This year, on July 4, Americans celebrate the 250th anniversary (the Declaration of Independence in 1776) with a series of video episodes (6 episodes, each about 55 minutes long - Watch it on SvT play at:

https://www.svtplay.se/sok?q=Ken%20Burns%3A%20The%20American%20Revolution

 Comment: We must not forget that the American Constitution (signed in 1789) fulfilled a dream that Socrates expressed in Plato's Dialogue REPUBLIC – Perhaps there will come a day when philosophers write a constitution that creates a new kind of civilization (C2 or modern Western civilization – democracy).

 In the six episodes, Thomas Paine is reestablished as one of the philosophers who should rightly be included among the "Founding Fathers of the Constitution".

 NOTE! All the Fathers of the Constitution were philosophers who were familiar with Plato's dialogue REPUBLIC.

 NOTE! It was primarily through the French Revolution and Napoleon that Thomas Paine's ideas of abolishing kingdoms and introducing laws (with the Code Napoleon's legal system) that C2/democracy was established in Europe in the coming centuries.

 NOTE! Today a similar "war of Liberty" is being waged by Ukraine against Russia, where Ukrainians defend C2 ideals against the tyrannical Russian C1 civilization.

Todde

See also: https://axiom1b.blogspot.com/2026/06/napoleon-bonaparte-after-visiting.html