Political Science · Western Political Thought
UGC NET June 2015 Political Science
Who of the following fled Athens for Chalcis, in order that the Athenians might not commit a second crime against philosophy?
ASocrates
BPlato
CAristotle ✓ Correct
DEuclid
Correct answer: (C) Aristotle — Aristotle is the thinker who left Athens for Chalcis so that the city would not sin twice against philosophy.
Explanation
★Aristotle is the thinker who left Athens for Chalcis so that the city would not sin twice against philosophy.
★The first sin was the execution of Socrates in 399 BC, and Aristotle feared a similar fate as anti-Macedonian feeling rose in Athens.
★As a Macedonian and the former tutor of Alexander the Great, he became politically suspect after Alexander died in 323 BC.
★He withdrew to Chalcis on the island of Euboea, his mother's homeland, where he died in 322 BC.
★Socrates and Plato never fled Athens, and Euclid the mathematician belongs to a later Alexandrian age, so none of them fits.
★Aristotle had earlier founded the Lyceum in Athens around 335 BC, the school whose followers were called Peripatetics.
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