Ancient and Classical World of Greece and Greek Philosophy: Focus on Plato's Crito: Plato's Crito - Dialogue with Socrates (Philosopher)

"Plato Within Your Grasp Plato (427?-347 BC), the protégé of Socrates, was one of the Western world's earliest and most important philosophers-a thinker whose moral and political teachings still resonate today. This succinct guide covers Plato's complex ideas and counterintuitive arguments and offers chapter-length discussions of major dialogues such as Meno, Phaedo, and The Republic."

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In this work, the author contends that contrary to prevailing notions, Plato's 'Crito' does not show an allegiance between Socrates & the state that condemned him. Weiss brings to light numerous indications that Socrates & the Laws are not partners.

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Summary: In his unwavering commitment to truth and in the example of his own life, Socrates set the standard for all subsequent Western philosophy. And yet, for twenty-five centuries, he has remained an enigma: a man who left no written legacy and about whom everything we know is hearsay, gleaned from the writings of Plato, Xenophon and Aristophanes. Now the author, a historian gives us a portrait of Socrates and of his homeland, Athens in its Golden Age. His life spanned "seventy of the busiest, most wonderful and tragic years in Athenian history." It was a city devastated by war, but, at the same time, transformed by the burgeoning process of democracy, and the author re-creates this fifth-century B.C. city, drawing on the latest sources to illuminate the streets where Socrates walked, to place him there and to show us the world as he experienced it.
Contents: The dramatic story of Socrates: sources and approach -- Athena's city -- Socrates as a young man -- Socrates the soldier -- New gods, new possibilities: Socrates in middle age -- The fight goes on -- Socrates and love -- Cutting down the tallest corn -- The trial and death of Socrates.

Preface: How this book came to be written. -- Socrates and Athens. Their basic differences ; Socrates and Homer ; The clue on the Thersites story ; The nature of virtue and of knowledge ; Courage as virtue ; A wild goose chase: the Socratic search for absolute divergence ; 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?

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