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114 <strong>Interpretation</strong> freedom, however used, is good. To comprehend this question, one must pay serious attention to the strongest case against that freedom. One must leave regimes whose main struggle is between old-fashioned defense of atheism's pretty fictions and sophisticated glorification of its hideous depths and embark on historical studies centering around the conflict between Socrates and bis Athenian accusers. In particular, one must strive to free one's mind of atheistic prejudice if grasp of the worth of the accusation of the Athenians is to emerge. Socrates' accusers perceived the atheistic implications of the phUosophical devaluation of non-atheistic pious attachment to noble or ignoble hes and unenlightened prejudices impeding human freedom. The question of the Tightness of the condemnation of Socratic atheism by pious Athenians remains the question of Western civilization. That civilization emerged with Greek thought and culminated in what Marlow calls Kurtz's moral victory. So long as Western man's question remains questionable, the issue should not be prejudiced in favor of Socrates or Kurtz, for Plato's Socrates is to Conrad's Kurtz as atheism's noble exterior is to its heart of darkness. Is not skepticism the proper response to both atheism's Socratic and its Kurtzian forms, however difficult such detachment may be for Western moral tastes? Probably philosophers strive to embrace this skepticism, while intellectuals such as Marlow and Kurtz shun its tepidity (p. 71). Perhaps something of this phUosophical effort is implied by the Platonic clerk's praise of the ISSSC's business at a distance and his refusal to engage directly in it (p. 11).
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