The Trial and Death of Socrates (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading): Four Dialogues
by:
David Taffel (author)
Plato (author)
Benjamin Jowett (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781411429192 (1411429192)
Publish date: September 1st 2009
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Pages no: 144
Edition language: English
(Original Review, 2000-12-02)I'm not trying to do much more than suggest Plato isn't starting from a blank sheet but from huge trauma: the death of a way of life that produced his great teacher, Socrates, but at the same time, killed him. The jurors who vote to put Socrates to death, after listening...
While I have written commentaries on collections before I have since tried to steer away from doing that to instead write about the individual pieces contained therein. Okay, in one way it does help to bump up the number of books on my shelf, but then again that is somewhat irrelevant (It's not as i...
Socrates was the man! I cannot believe he lived almost 2400 years ago. What a brilliant thinker. Is there anyone out there today that even compares?
You know, Socrates was kindof a dick.