Category: I. F. Stone

I. F. Stone

I’m working on this book on the trial of Socrates. It started out with the idea of the problem of freedom of thought…and expression…I started by spending a year on the English Seventeenth Century Revolutions, and I had a fascinating time. And then I felt I couldn’t understand the English Seventeenth Century Revolutions without understanding the Reformation. When I got to the Reformation, I felt that I had to understand the premonitory movements that began in the Middle Ages. When I got there, I felt I had to understand the classical period.” (quoted in Andrew Patner, I. F. Stone: A Portrait, p. 21)

I. F. Stone

I’m working on this book on the trial of Socrates. It started out with the idea of the problem of freedom of thought…and expression…I started by spending a year on the English Seventeenth Century Revolutions, and I had a fascinating time. And then I felt I couldn’t understand the English Seventeenth Century Revolutions without understanding the Reformation. When I got to the Reformation, I felt that I had to understand the premonitory movements that began in the Middle Ages. When I got there, I felt I had to understand the classical period.” (quoted in Andrew Patner, I. F. Stone: A Portrait, p. 21)