The trial of Socrates / I.F. Stone
1988, 1st edition. Boston : Little, Brown. Near fine cloth copy in a good if slightly edge-torn and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #334875
ISBN: 0224025910
Physical description: xi, 282 pages; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-267) and index. Contents: Preface: How this book came to be written. -- Socrates and Athens. Their basic differences; Socrates and Homer The clue in the Thersites story; The nature of virtue and of knowledge; Courage as virtue; A wild goose chase: the Socratic search for absolute definitions; 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 accuses; 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? Subjects: Socrates. Socrates Trials, litigation, etc. Socrates Biography Last years. Trials (Treason) Greece Athens. Athens Social life and customs. Genre: Bibliography. Summary: Shows how profound were the differences between democratic Athens and the philosopher whose martyrdom has made him-thanks to Plato's genius, a secular saint of western civilization.
Price: €18.00