The Scoutmaster, The Efficient Cause

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Socrates was a citizen of Athens. He refused to escape his death sentence in order to be an obedient citizen.

 

From An Introduction to Greek Philosophy, by J.V. Luce, l992 pg 66.

 

This is about Anaxagoras

 

"...when someone asked him, 'Have you no care for your country?' he replied, 'I have a greate care for my country', (pointing to the sky."

 

Mr. Luce remarks immediately "The anecdote marks him out as the first explicit 'cosmopotitan', that is to say, 'citizen of the universe', owing allegiance to scientific truth rather than to Athens or Clazomenae."