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Hannah Arendt Philosophy and Politics THE GULF BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY AN D POLITICS OPENED HISTORICALLY with th e trial and condemnation of Socrates, which in the history of political thought plays the same role of a turning point that the trial and condemnation of Jesus plays in the history of religion. Our tradi- tion of political thought began when the death of Socrates made Plato despair of polis life and, at the same time , doubt certain fundamen- tals of Socrates teachings . The fact that Socrates had not been able to persuad