The Last Days Of Socrates
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the crossroads of philosophy and mortality stands one of Western civilization's most enduring accounts of intellectual courage — Plato's The Last Days of Socrates, a collection of four dialogues — Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo — that chronicles the trial, imprisonment, and death of the philosopher Socrates in 399 BC. Through these masterfully constructed conversations, Plato presents his mentor confronting charges of impiety and corrupting the youth of Athens, arguing with extraordinary composure and razor-sharp logic for the immortality of the soul and the supremacy of virtue over self-preservation. These dialogues stand as the foundational texts of Western philosophy, illuminating timeless questions about justice, piety, the nature of the soul, and what it means to live — and die — with integrity. Plato's prose, rendered with dramatic tension and philosophical depth, transforms a historical execution into a profound meditation on truth and moral conviction. As Socrates drinks the hemlock with serene acceptance, the reader is left confronting an unsettling question: in a world governed by popular opinion and political expediency, is the life of the philosopher inherently one of dissent?
Author: Plato
Format: Paperback
Genre: Philosophy
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the crossroads of philosophy and mortality stands one of Western civilization's most enduring accounts of intellectual courage — Plato's The Last Days of Socrates, a collection of four dialogues — Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo — that chronicles the trial, imprisonment, and death of the philosopher Socrates in 399 BC. Through these masterfully constructed conversations, Plato presents his mentor confronting charges of impiety and corrupting the youth of Athens, arguing with extraordinary composure and razor-sharp logic for the immortality of the soul and the supremacy of virtue over self-preservation. These dialogues stand as the foundational texts of Western philosophy, illuminating timeless questions about justice, piety, the nature of the soul, and what it means to live — and die — with integrity. Plato's prose, rendered with dramatic tension and philosophical depth, transforms a historical execution into a profound meditation on truth and moral conviction. As Socrates drinks the hemlock with serene acceptance, the reader is left confronting an unsettling question: in a world governed by popular opinion and political expediency, is the life of the philosopher inherently one of dissent?