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Burn Down the Thinkeries!(Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays)(Book review)
From: Skeptic (Altadena, CA)
Date: 20070922
Author:Gottschall, Jonathan
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A review of Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays by Frederick Crows, Emeryville, CA: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2006, 404 pp., $16.95. ISBN-10: 1593761015, ISBN-13:978-1593761011
IF THE GREEK PLAYWRIGHT Aristophanes were alive today, he would be an active member of the Skeptics' Society. His comic masterpiece, The Clouds, is a devastating satirical treatment of 5th-century Sophists in the city-state of Athens. In the play, Athens is beset by intellectual plagues--lies, pseudoscience, chicanery--all emanating from the Sophists' Thinkery (Phrontisterion). ...
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