Conversations of Socrates (Penguin Classics)
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Second to Plato - Good source to compare and contrast Plato s accounts. Major significant part in this book is the dinner party .
The second complete account of Socrates to survive. - More on Socrates, especially for those who wish to know more after having exhausted Plato (which is no simple task). Only gets four stars because it comes across as being slightly less powerful than Plato, although, contrary to the translators opinion, appears to portray the historical Socrates more accurately (except for the final dialogue). Socrates Defense presents the only other complete account of his trial, Memoirs of Socrates is a collection, The Dinner Party is about the notion of love, and Estate Manager is a dialogue about managing an estate. I have always find the presentation of dialogue preferable to essay (as in Plutarch).
A Wonderful Insight To Socrates and His Philosophies - Xenophon relates an easy-to-understand text of who Socrates was and what he taught. It includes his defence, memoirs, dinner party, and estate-manager. Truly fine reading.
Socrates can think while he speaks. He can not be compared. - Socrates conversations has to be read by anyone who wants a great thinker.A poem on Socrates life: Death, a mystery to mankind, Feared but yet accepted. Unwanted by most men except those who perceived it. Obligatory until he was overthrown, Because death to him was known. To prove the wisest of the wisest, He talked to people of the highest, Until humiliated they rebelled And cursed him to bloody hell. So he was put to court. Expected to beg and to deny, To forgive and to cry. But no, he took it all, It was not here where his character would fall. What better thing than a sleep with no wake. It was this punishment he would take. Better than the thought of the trial, Stay away from his home, exile. Courage this man had. Whatever these people didn t understand, No thought was put for there knowledge to expand. It took the highest of the pains, To make this man tame. Only to prove wrong those who didn t believe That to be wise is not to perceive. So the only precious gift from God he had to waste, he went and felt the bitter hemlock taste. Diogo Beltran Diogo Beltra