Socrates et al. is not exactly “any and everyone associated with the scientific tradition”… They launched the philosophical religion, Platonism, that in its most popular form, Christianity, was “the kingdom of darkness Machiavelli and all his successors fought” (Lampert, Leo Strauss and Nietzsche, page 144). And the modern project launched by Machiavelli et al. has been the project of the scientific-technological conquest of nature, which has led to the inventions of computers and nuclear weapons as well as to what I recently described elsewhere on this forum:
‘[T]here’s over eight billion people crowding up the place. And most of those people want to eat meat, as if they were nobility, and they want to drive mostly gasoline-powered vehicles, and take hot showers, and fly across the globe, and surf the internet all day preferably on mobile supercomputers, and order all kinds of luxury commodities mass-produced in large factories with massive greenhouse emissions.’
https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/its-too-hot/80334/7?u=zeroeth_nature
As for my “If anyone is responsible”, with its intended ambiguity:
“Fearing that he [Socrates] will bring his genuine friends, the few wise, down with him in this boldest of projects on behalf of wisdom, he in fact offers a prayer, the most solemn of prayers and the only one becoming of a philosopher: ‘I prostrate myself before Adrasteia.’ He prays the prayer of a philosopher compelled to act on the grandest scale not knowing whether he can succeed; he submits himself to Nemesis, the necessity that rules all, knowing the rashness of his deed while judging that necessity itself calls it forth.” (Lampert, How Philosophy Became Socratic, page 311.)
