Truth and Mockery in Platon and in Modernity

About the Book

The modern world is preoccupied with correctness in its views of nature, government, economy and culture but at an unacceptable price. We find nature blind and indifferent and we now see culture as anything legally allowed. This insightful study examines the philosophy leading us here while showing how to change it. If we accept the integral role of mockery in truth we gain a more comprehensive view of ourselves and the world. In a perceptive study of four dialogues of Plato---the ones telling the story of Socrates' defense of philosophy----we find a pattern for our own growth. This book calls for renewed faith in an educated perception and in noble self-development. It speaks to discovering "heart and soul, not in an aesthetic diversion but in the nature of everything around us."

About the Author

Dale Wilt Evans grew up at the Germantown Home in Philadelphia. He attended The Pennsylvania State University and received the Ph.D. in Philosophy. At one time or other he has taught at four different colleges in Wyoming and Pennsylvania, sojouned two years in Europe (one year as a Fulbright Fellow in Germany), and worked in home building. He presently lives in Nothwest Pennsylvania.