Apology of Socrates

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• telemachos · Apr 4, 2010 · Recommends

  …Here's my list of literature everyone should at least try (in no particular order): Homer: both the Iliad and Odyssey Sophocles: Oedipus the King (read it - far better than you might think) Plato: The Apology of Socrates Sappho's fragmentary poems (the translation by Anne Carson titled If not, winter is especially good) Dante: Inferno Shakespeare: at least one tragedy, one history, one comedy and one of the final "problem…

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• alderssc · May 3, 2011 · Recommends

  I recommend The Apology of Socrates and The Republic, both written by Plato. The former because it's an excellent introduction to one of the west's most influential figures (Socrates). As a testament to that influence, any philosopher…

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• lostphilosopher · Mar 6, 2017 · Recommends

  Generally: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn The Apology of Socrates, Plato Professionally: The Pragmatic Programmer, Andrew Hunt and David Thomas The Best Interface is No Interface, Golden Krishna

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• notsag-hn · Dec 24, 2021 · Recommends

  The apology of Socrates by Plato

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• azeotropic · Apr 30, 2019 · Mentions

  I was reminded of this passage from Plato's Apology of Socrates: "I went to the poets; tragic, dithyrambic, and all sorts. And there, I said to myself, you will be detected; now you will find out that you are more ignorant than they are. Accordingly, I took them…

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• kybernetikos · Apr 30, 2019 · Mentions

  …also observed that the very fact that they were poets made them think that they had a perfect understanding of all other subjects, of which they were totally ignorant. — Socrates, quoted by Plato in The Apology of Socrates (translated by Hugh Tredinnick)

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• Nition · Oct 30, 2024 · Mentions

  …great to get a lot more 'not attempted'. "I seem, then, in just this little thing to be wiser than this man at any rate; that what I do not know I do not think I know either." - Socratos, from Plato's Apology of Socrates

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• alt227 · Apr 17, 2025 · Mentions

  Can you please point me to the text where Socrates chooses death over exhile? I have read Apology of Socrates in its entirety[0] and a few text analysis and I can find no evidence of this. It seems to me that Socrates suggested a fine[1], and it was his prosecuters which argued for death[2] [0] https://chs.harvard.edu/primary-source/plato-the-apology-of-...…

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• t0bia_s · Dec 27, 2025 · Mentions

  The Road to Serfdom - Friedrich August von Hayek Apology of Socrates - Plato The Betrayal of the Intellectuals - Julien Benda

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• jreeve · Apr 26, 2012 · Mentions

  …wasn’t my intention. I was merely alluding to the book by Hardy, A Mathematician’s Apology, which spent time explaining and justifying his life as a mathematician. (Hardy, in turn, was alluding to the Apology of Socrates. It’s an apology in the classical sense (an intellectual justification), not an expression of remorse. My mistake - as a math geek, it’s easy for me to forget that most people have never heard of Hardy."…

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• card_zero · Apr 17, 2025 · Mentions

  Is it? (I doubt reading either Apology of Socrates will give an unambiguous reason why he didn't offer the exile option, if any reason.)

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