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The Trial and Death of Socrates: Four Dialogues
  • Publisher: Dover Publications Inc
  • Edition: BC Paperback
  • Publication: 01 February 2000
  • ISBN 13/EAN: 9780486270661
  • Stock: 50+
  • Size: 133x210 mm
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: £4.99
  • Series: Dover Thrift Editions
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The Trial and Death of Socrates: Four Dialogues

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by Plato (Author)

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Among the most important and influential philosophical works in Western thought: Euthyphro, exploring the concepts and aims of piety and religion; Apology, a defense of the integrity of Socrates' teachings; Crito, exploring Socrates' refusal to flee his death sentence; and Phaedo, in which Socrates embraces death and discusses the immortality of the soul.

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About Plato

Plato ranks among the most familiar ancient philosophers, along with his teacher, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle. In addition to writing philosophical dialogues used to teach logic, ethics, rhetoric, religion, and mathematics as well as philosophy he founded Athens' Academy, the Western world's first institution of higher learning.



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