Reviews of book: The trial and death of Socrates: being the Euthyphron, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Plato

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Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios rated it

6 years ago

text Epaminondas: "The Trial and Death of Socrates" by Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo (trans. G.M.A. Grube)

(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...

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Philosophical Musings of a Book Nerd rated it

12 years ago

text Thoughts from Socrates' Trial and Execution

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...

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My Reading Life rated it

14 years ago

text Five Dialogues

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?

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UNICORN PORN FOR ALL rated it

16 years ago

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You know, Socrates was kindof a dick.

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