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The death of Socrates

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“Tell us, Delphic Oracle, who is the wisest man in all of Greece?” So begins The Death of Socrates . No mortal man is wiser than Socrates, who, on his daily walks through Athens, talks to all the people he meets. When the person he talks to takes himself to be very wise, Socrates asks so many questions that the person ends up admitting he knows nothing. When he runs into people who know little, Socrates sets them on the way to wisdom. But not everyone shares Socrates’s love for the truth. When the people of Athens put him on trial for his ceaseless questioning, how will he find the courage to continue to speak the truth?

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The death of Socrates, Jean Paul Mongin

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2015
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Title
The death of Socrates
Language
English
Publisher
Diaphanes
Released
2015
Format
Hardcover
Pages
64
ISBN10
3037345446
ISBN13
9783037345443
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3.9 out of 5
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“Tell us, Delphic Oracle, who is the wisest man in all of Greece?” So begins The Death of Socrates . No mortal man is wiser than Socrates, who, on his daily walks through Athens, talks to all the people he meets. When the person he talks to takes himself to be very wise, Socrates asks so many questions that the person ends up admitting he knows nothing. When he runs into people who know little, Socrates sets them on the way to wisdom. But not everyone shares Socrates’s love for the truth. When the people of Athens put him on trial for his ceaseless questioning, how will he find the courage to continue to speak the truth?