Socrates Against Athens: Philosophy on Trial 1135024936, 9781135024932

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Socrates On Trial tells of Socrates’s return to a modern city that is plagued by prejudice, privilege and populism. On r

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What can we learn about the trial of Socrates from Plato’s dialogues? Most scholars say we can learn a lot from the Apol

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The Dialogues of Plato (427–347 B.C.) rank with the writings of Aristotle as the most important and influential philosop

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An comprehensive overwiew on Socrates' philosophy

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The Classical Athenians were the first to articulate and implement the notion that ordinary citizens of no particular af

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Complete with production and classroom notes, this modern recasting of the Socrates story will make riveting reading bot

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