Socrates on the screen …

… (11) Roberto Rossellini's "Socrates" - by William F. Vallicella.

One ought to meditate on the fact that the two greatest teachers of the West, and two great teachers of humanity, Socrates and Jesus, were unjustly executed by the State.  This is something contemporary  liberals, uncritical in their belief in the benevolence of government, ought especially to consider.