The Book Of Dead Philosophers (critchley, Simon) / quote 3 of 18

Socrates' daimon was an external sign

Socrates always claimed to follow his own daimon, what Cicero called a ‘divine something’: a personal god or spirit, what we might be inclined to think of as conscience. However, Socrates’ daimon was not some ‘inner voice’, but an external sign or command that would suddenly cause him to stop in his tracks.

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