| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xi, 282 pages ; 24 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-267) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface: How this book came to be written. -- Socrates and Athens. Their basic differences ; Socrates and Homer ; The clue in the Thersites story ; The nature of virtue and of knowledge ; Courage as virtue ; A wild goose chase: the Socratic search for absolute definitions ; Socrates and rhetoric ; The good life: the third Socratic divergence ; The prejudices of Socrates. -- The ordeal. Why did they wait until he was seventy? ; The three earthquakes ; Xenophon, Plato, and the three earthquakes ; The principal accuser ; How Socrates did his best to antagonize the jury ; How Socrates easily might have won acquittal ; What Socrates should have said ; The four words ; The final question. -- Epilogue: Was there a witch-hunt in ancient Athens? |
| Summary |
Shows how profound were the differences between democratic Athens and the philosopher whose martyrdom has made him-thanks to Plato's genius, a secular saint of western civilization. |
| Subject |
Socrates.
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Socrates -- Trials, litigation, etc.
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Socrates.
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Socrates -- Trials, litigation, etc.
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Socrates. (OCoLC)fst00035600
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Socrates.
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| Genre/Form |
Trial and arbitral proceedings. (OCoLC)fst01774319
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Trials, litigation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01423712
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Trial and arbitral proceedings.
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| ISBN |
0316817589 |
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9780316817585 |
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9780385260329 |
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0385260326 |
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