Re: Can color consciousness create corruption?
coberst wrote:Does this little game of make-believe give you a better appreciation of why the Athenians executed Socrates for "corrupting the youth"?
Not really, since Socrates's trial was primarily a political matter, for both sides. If you modified your thought experiment such that the perception of color was being touted as a political statement and a means toward social change (thus making the color-seer closer to Socrates), then the analogy would be a little closer. But right now the thought experiment seems to suggest that the color-seer was interested in perceiving color for its own sake and not as a means toward political action, which is far removed from the world of Socrates and Athens.