Socratesâ death secularizes myth by replacing sacrifice with reasoned example
Evidence
The legend of Socratesâ judicially imposed suicide, Benjamin maintains, constitutes the secularization of classical tragedy, and hence of myth, because it substitutes a reasoned and exemplary death for the sacriïŹcial death of a mythic hero. â Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 315
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Benjaminâs account of what âsecularizationâ of tragedy means: reasoned death replaces sacrificial death.