Full name: The Great Philosophers: Socrates

Author: Anthony Gottlieb Year: 1999 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Philosophy Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads

Socrates 469-399BC "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 the man with best claims to be its founding father. Yet Socrates? influence was not so easily to be done away with. His words lovingly recorded by his devoted disciple Plato, his doctrines reached a posterity which has, through twenty-seven centuries now, taken him as its teacher. The marriage of idealism and scepticism in his though; his sense of education as self-discovery; his view of philosophy as preparation for life: these have been the stuff of western thought at its best. So completely did Socrates embody these values, he was prepared to die in their defence? Similar books: Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein On Relationship by Jiddu Krishnamurti Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein On Certainty by Ludwig Wittgenstein Musashi's Book of Five Rings by Stephen F. Kaufman Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics by Tara Smith The Warrior Within by John Little Nietzsche and Zen by Andre van der Braak Luhmann Explained by Hans-Georg Moeller Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead The Philosophy of Jesus by Peter Kreeft Philosophical Remarks by Ludwig Wittgenstein A New Guide to Rational Living by Albert Ellis Nothing Matters by Ronald Green The Jewish Writings by Hannah Arendt The Death of God and the Meaning of Life by Julian Young A Brief History of Analytic Philosophy by Stephen P. Schwartz How to Read Wittgenstein by Ray Monk On Nietzsche by Georges Bataille