The Platonization of the trial of Socrates transforms a critique of conventional interpretations of the concepts of 'impiety' and 'corrupting the youth', into a triumph of Soul over Body. Likewise, Kant's pitting Totalizing Reason against individual inclination, finds common ground with conventional Deontology. In contrast, Distributive Reason, which originates examples, is a potentially more effective vehicle of liberation from convention, and, thus, is closer to Socratic than to Platonist Reason.
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