La condanna a morte di Socrate nel contesto della crisi della democrazia ateniese. Considerazioni filosofico-giuridiche, tra storia e attualità
Socrates's death sentence in the context of the crisis of Athenian democracy. Philosophical and legal considerations, between history and current events

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on the trial of Socrates, questioning the possible ‘environmental’ background that led to the philosopher's conviction, despite his brilliant defense. The underlying thesis is that, in the ‘turbulent’ Athenian democracy, Socratic questioning—intended as an antidote to the self-referentiality of opinion, and with it, of power—collided with various positions wellrepresented in contemporary Athens, and likely also on the jury that sentenced the philosopher to death. In particular, Socrates would have been disliked, for converging reasons, by two notoriously opposed forces throughout the life of Athenian democracy: the demagogic and the oligarchic.

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