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Socrates: A Man for Our Times
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I always appreciate Johnson's concision, but while he satisfactorily covers Socrates' life, death, and the relevant history of Athens, I wish he would have expounded more on Socrates' philosophy and how it was altered by his student, Plato.
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Michael G
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Nov 02, 2017 07:20PM
I haven’t studied Socrates, but Thomas Babington Macauley once said that the more he learned about Socrates the more he thought it was a good thing that Athens killed him.
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Yikes! A minority view I'm sure
