Socratic Mastery and citizen democratization; a possible remedy to the disorientation of the current academy

Abstract

The trance experienced by Socrates, concerning his sentence to death, is a good example to consider when, straining the pupil, we intend to investigate the influences of traditionalism in the academic and cultural sphere, because it expresses the serious infringement that suffers the freedom of thought and expression from the assumption of infallibility rooted in folklore.  Understanding these freedoms as backbone axes of every democratic state, perceived at the same time as a construction erected from the academy, the present analogy can serve to clarify the present democratic imbalance in so many states Considered democratic. In this sense, through a qualitative investigation based on the bibliographical documentation and the reflection, it will analyse how and why the Academy in general, which tightrope Walker, travels inoculated by sociocultural influences and pernicious policies; the obstacles that lead to an intellectual and moral blindness in the social sphere.