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" The trial of Socrates / "
I.F. Stone.
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BL
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874724
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Stone, I. F., (Isidor Feinstein),1907-1989.
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The trial of Socrates /\ I.F. Stone.
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed.
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| Publication Statement
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Boston :: Little, Brown,, ©1988.
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xi, 282 pages ;; 24 cm
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0316817589
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: 0385260326
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: 9780316817585
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: 9780385260329
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-267) and index.
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| Contents
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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 accuser ; 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?
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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.
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Socrates-- Trials, litigation, etc.
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Socrates.
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Socrates-- Trials, litigation, etc.
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Socrates.
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Socrates.
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Socrates.
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Socrates.
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Prozess
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| Dewey Classification
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183/.2
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| LC Classification
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B317.S76 1988
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08.21bcl
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