The Great Philosophers: Socrates
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- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
12 January 2021
Summary
‘If you put me to death,’ Socrates warned his Athenian judges, ‘you will not easily find anyone to take my place.’
So indeed it would prove, a single cup of hemlock robbing the western philosophical tradition of its founding father. Yet Socrates’ influence was not so easily to be done away with. His words were lovingly recorded by his devoted disciple Plato, and his teachings have survived for twenty-seven centuries.
His sense of education as self-discovery an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474616768 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1474616763 |
| Author: | Anthony Gottlieb |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 12 January 2021 |
| Weight: | 60g |
| Dimensions: | 176mm x 108mm x 10mm |
| Series: | GREAT PHILOSOPHERS |
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Rarely have intellectual sophistication and complexity come so cheap - FINANCIAL TIMES
The books should improve the cultural circulation of philosophy by their style as well as their substance - TESA promising venture - THE TIMESThe virtue of these deceptively brief books is that they are the real thing - EVENING STANDARDAbout The Author
Anthony Gottlieb
Anthony Gottlieb is the author of The Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance and The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy. He is a former executive editor of The Economist and former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
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