Apology

When he was tried, convicted and ordered to death in 399 B.C.E., Socrates was already seventy years old: he had lived through the imperialistic spread of Athenian democracy and culture under Pericles, twenty-five years of first cold and then heated war with Sparta, the defeat of Athens in 404 B.C.E.......more

Somebody should tell Jon Snow to read this book. Poor guy, Ygritte wouldn't stop giving him hell. "You know nothing, Jon Snow" says she, all the time. If only Jon would read Socrates, he would have the greatest of retorts, the greatest of Socrates' teachings as his come back. "The only true wisdom is......more

I do not know, men of Athens, how my accusers affected you; as for me, I was almost carried away in spite of myself, so persuasively did they speak. And yet, hardly anything of what they said is true. Socrates It's strange to reread a text that I first read when I was young, idealistic, optimistic, an......more

( Plato's dialogues ) بادئ ذى بدء .. الكتاب من النوع الذى يتركك فى حاله يرثى لها بعد فروغك منه , فقد فقدت صديقا حميما. المحاورات : 1- Euthyphro .. أوطيفرون 2- الدفاع 3- crito .. أقريطون 4- Phaedo .. فيدون أحبهم إلى قلبى .. الدفاع وأقريطون , محاورة فيدون هى الأطول . تتبع المحاوره الأخيره نظام مختلف عن ال......more

I wish I had read these 4 dialogues before they made us work through The Republic back in school. Plato can seem so distant and archiac so much of the time, but here there is an actual sense of human urgency: Socrates is about to die. A lot of times the dialogues feel completely neutered from any re......more