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SOCRATES: Philosophy's martyr
SOCRATES:
Philosophy's martyr
BY ANTHONY GOTTLIEB
EXCERPTS
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SOCRATES ON THE
WEB
"Outstanding" THE TIMES
How was Socrates different from other martyrs?
- What sort of man was he? - What is Socratic irony? - Was he put on trial
for political  reasons?
- What was his attitude to religion? - Why were the Athenians sick of him?
- Is Plato's Socrates the real Socrates? - How did his views differ from
Plato's? - How come we know anything at all about him? - What was his theory
about virtue? - How far can it be defended? - Why did he say that a good
man cannot be harmed? - Was he just naive? - Why does he count as a philosopher?
- Why were many of his followers so strange? - What is his legacy?
These are some of the questions addressed
in the book
THE AUTHOR
Anthony Gottlieb is Executive Editor of
The
Economist and a former departmental fellow in philosophy at Birkbeck
College, London University. He studied philosophy at Cambridge University,
did graduate work at University College London, and was a visiting fellow
at Harvard University's School of Public Health.
Socrates
is based on a chapter from the first volume
of his forthcoming two-volume history of western philosophy, The
Dream of Reason. The first volume, covering Thales to the Renaissance,
has been published by Penguin in Britain
and Norton in the United
States.
THE SERIES
The Great Philosophers series was first published
by Phoenix, a division of the Orion Publishing Group: Orion House, 5 Upper
St Martin’s Lane, London WC2H 9EA. The consulting editors of the series
are Ray Monk and Frederic Raphael. Price: £2 each. A review
of the first twelve volumes in the series appeared in The Times
on 15 November 1997.
Titles in the series: Wittgenstein, by P.M.S.Hacker;
Marx,
by Terry Eagleton; Turing, by Andrew
Hodges; Ayer, by Oswald Hanfling; Nietzsche, by Ronald
Hayman; Socrates, by Anthony Gottlieb; Bertrand Russell,
by Ray Monk; Locke, by M.R.Ayers; Derrida, by Christopher
Johnson; Descartes, by John Cottingham; Berkeley, by
David Berman; Hegel, by Raymond Plant; Aristotle, by Kenneth
McLeish; Spinoza, by Roger Scruton; Democritus, by Paul Cartledge;
Kant,
by Ralph Walker; Hume, by Anthony Quinton; Popper, by Frederic
Raphael.
Heidegger, by Jonathan Ree; Plato, by Bernard Williams;
Schopenhauer,
by Michael Tanner; Voltaire, by John Gray;
Pascal, by Ben
Rogers; Collingwood, by Aaron Ridley.
THE EXCERPTS
The trial
Socrates versus
Plato
The Cynics and
Socrates
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or The
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British editions
Buy Socrates
or The
Dream of Reason from Amazon.co.uk
Foreign-language editions:
Italian: Socrate: Martire della Filosofia. (Edizioni
Euroclub Italia, su licenza di RCS Libri, Milano. 1998). Polish: Sokrates:
Meczennik filozofii. (Wydawnictwo Amber, 1998). Spanish: Socrates:
El martir de la Filosofia. (Grupo Editorial Norma, Santa Fe de Bogota,
Colombia, 1999).
SOCRATES ON
THE WEB
A good place to start is the Last
Days of Socrates site, from Clarke College, Dubuque, Iowa, which has
annotated hypertext versions of four of Plato's most important  dialogues
about Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo.
The background information in these links is excellent. The site also has
audio clips from some of the texts.
All of Plato's dialogues (in the well-known Jowett translations)
are available in the Internet
Classics Archive, which is a searchable collection of more than 350
ancient Greek and Roman texts in translation, including a translation of
Aristophanes's The
Clouds, and Dryden's translation of Plutarch's Life
Of Alcibiades.
Many relevant texts are available in Greek, with morphological
links, at the Perseus Project
of Tufts University. Perseus also has a searchable encyclopaedia of the
ancient world, secondary sources, maps and a large range of classical texts
in English translation. Carl Conrad's Classics
Resource is a good place to start any research on classical topics.
The Stanford Encyclopaedia
of Philosophy and the Internet
Encyclopaedia of Philosophy can be used to look up plenty of philosophical
terms and concepts, places and people that are relevant to the study of
Socrates. (They can be used, for example, to find further information about
some of the lesser-known figures mentioned in my book, such as Antisthenes.)
The Hippias search engine
trawls through all sorts of philosophical resources on the web. Its main
page also has a list of lists of philosophy sites. (No philosophical tour
of the web should miss the philosophical
humour page compiled by David Chalmers.)
Bernard Suzanne has constructed a Plato
homepage with a hyptertext biography of Plato and a history of the
interpretation of his dialogues. A few academic essays about Socrates are
available online---for example, The
Socratic Elenchus as a Search for Truth, by Andrew N. Carpenter of
U.C.Berkeley; and a discussion of Kierkegaard’s work on Socratic
irony, by D. Anthony Storm. A contrarian view of Socrates is expressed
in Socrates had
it coming, which is on a site describing itself as "Your One-Stop Shopping
for Sedition", and as a selection of "Conservative, Libertarian, Constitutionalist,
Militia, and Patriot thought".
Unlike very many philosophers, alive and dead, it appears
that Socrates does not yet have much of a homepage to call his own.
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EXCERPTS NOW
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ILLUSTRATION: "The Death of Socrates",
By David. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. See
a larger image of it.
This site first published in November
1997
Last updated April 2002
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