London, U.K.: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. — 272 p. Socrates: the philosopher whose questioning gave birth to the ideas of Western thought, and whose execution marked the end of the Athenian Golden Age. Yet despite his pre-eminence among the great thinkers of history, little of his life story is known. What we know tends to begin in his middle age and end with his trial and...
London, U.K.: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. — 272 p. Socrates: the philosopher whose questioning gave birth to the ideas of Western thought, and whose execution marked the end of the Athenian Golden Age. Yet despite his pre-eminence among the great thinkers of history, little of his life story is known. What we know tends to begin in his middle age and end with his trial and...
London, U.K.: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. — 272 p. Socrates: the philosopher whose questioning gave birth to the ideas of Western thought, and whose execution marked the end of the Athenian Golden Age. Yet despite his pre-eminence among the great thinkers of history, little of his life story is known. What we know tends to begin in his middle age and end with his trial and...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 436 p. The Cambridge Companion to Socrates is a collection of essays that provides a comprehensive guide to Socrates, the most famous Greek philosopher. Because Socrates himself wrote nothing, our evidence comes from the writings of his friends (above all Plato), his enemies, and later writers. Socrates is thus a literary fi gure as well as a...
Oxford University Press, 1998. — 244 p. In this book, Christopher Taylor explores the relationship between the historical Socrates and the engaging and infuriating figure who appears in Plato's dialogues, and examines the enduring image of Socrates as the ideal exemplar of the philosophic life-a thinker whose moral and intellectual integrity permeated every detail of his life,...
2nd Edition. — Oxford University Press, 2019. — 160 p. — (A Very Short Introduction). — ISBN: 9780198835981. Categories Other Social Sciences\\Philosophy Volume:27 Socrates has a unique position in the history of philosophy; it is no exaggeration to say that had it not been for his influence on Plato, the whole development of Western philosophy might have been unimaginably...
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