Plato and the Peloponnesian War

Alex Petkus: Plato saw his beloved teacher get condemned to death by an Athenian jury, by a jury of his own countrymen. He had to live with those people after the Peloponnesian War. So what did he do? Avoid society entirely? No. Take time he encountered someone he didn't want to be like and ask himself are I not in fact like that too? And yet is it better for him to refine his scrutiny of his own character as well? Alex says yes; so try that next time you observe vice.