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Socrates is presented defending his life of questioning in an Athenian courtroom. The work is a compact introduction to philosophical inquiry because the central drama is not an abstract system but a person asking what it means to live intelligently and examine one’s assumptions
The dialogue centres on Socrates’ final hours and uses that setting to explore the soul, death, knowledge and the relationship between philosophical practice and mortality. Its emotional setting gives difficult questions a human scale
A collection of Platonic dialogues in which Socrates and other speakers investigate knowledge, justice, love, virtue, politics, and the good life
Plato’s later dialogue explores legislation, education, civic order, religion, and the design of a well-governed city and its institutions
Plato’s dialogue tests competing accounts of justice and asks what education, political order and the shape of a good life might have to do with one another
A sequence of speeches about love becomes a discussion of desire, beauty, wisdom and the movement from physical attraction toward intellectual and moral aspirations. The dramatic format makes it one of Plato’s more inviting starting points
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