n the apology, Socrates compares Athens with a well-born, but lazy horse, and himself with a gadfly that forces it to move. He treated the word art that seeks to foster interest to the truth and virtue in Athenians as a kind of religious and civic duty. Philosophers in the information society are to deal with a metal horse. Are the words of contemporary Socrates effective? Whatever following generations would answer, the moral voice has to sound today.

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