The Trial and Death of Socrates: Being the Euthyphron, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Plato
by:
Plato (author)
F J Church (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781480221482 (1480221481)
Publish date: November 2nd 2012
Publisher: CreateSpace
Pages no: 306
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.