Sócrates y Sade: una perversión (o el escándalo de la filosofía)

Resumen

In 399 b. C., a man was accused and sentenced to die because people thought he had the power to seduce young people with words, not beautiful but morbid, naked words. His candour and open manner were offensive in the eyes of ordinary people: he walked about naked (soul-naked) among the Greeks, uncovering all prejudice, just as the Divine Marquis of Sade would in an apparently very different field. Indeed, both thinkers do the same thing: they expose a real and deeply hidden tendency in men: not the desire of knowledge, but the desire of not knowing anything about their own souls. They expose what people want to keep in the dark: the certitude or the falsehood of their judgements, the limits and the pursuits of our thought. But no one can go over the limit and keep on living.