Socrates spent a lifetime analyzing ethical issues, and the "Euthyphro" finds him outside the court-house, still debating the nature of piety with an arrogant acquaintance. "The Apology" is both a robust rebuttal to the charges of impiety and corrupting young minds and a definitive defence of the philosopher's life. Later, condemned and imprisoned in the "Crito", Socrates counters the arguments of friends urging him to escape. And finally, in the "Phaedo", Plato shows him calmly confident in the face of death, skilfully arguing the case for the immortality of the soul. Such works, as Harold Tarrant explains in his introduction to this revised edition, are no longer regarded by scholars as direct transcriptions of real events.
- ISBN10 014044582X
- ISBN13 9780140445824
- Publish Date 27 May 1993 (first published 30 May 1954)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 June 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Edition Revised edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 272
- Language English