Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Plato's 'Apology': The Life and Teachings of Socrates

Video, hosted by Mortimer J. Adler, at Britannica, with accompanying transcript.

"One of the most striking things about Socrates the man was his love of conversation, his untiring interest in what could be learned by talking with his fellow men about almost any subject that might be proposed. Unlike earlier Greek thinkers, who are sometimes called the pre-Socratic philosophers, Socrates was not interested in studying nature. He was not an observer of natural phenomena, as some of his predecessors were. He was an observer of man, and of the human world as it is revealed in what men say and think about the world in which they live."

See Plato, Dialogues, in Great Books of the Western World (first edition, 52 Vol., 1952) volume 7, (second edition, 60 Vol., 1990) volume 6.

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