Answers questions on Plato's Apology, Socrates's defence before the Athenian jury, quoting Benjamin Jowett's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain).
“The second question, whether Plato meant to represent Socrates as braving or irritating his judges, must also be answered in the negative. His irony, his superi…”
Answers questions on Plato's Republic: justice, the ideal city and the allegory of the cave, quoting Benjamin Jowett's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.
“The delineation of Socrates in the Republic is not wholly consistent. In the first book we have more of the real Socrates, such as he is depicted in the Memorab…”
Answers questions on Plato's Symposium: the speeches on love by Phaedrus, Aristophanes, Agathon and Socrates, Diotima and Alcibiades, quoting Benjamin Jowett's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the speech.
“He begins by comparing Socrates first to the busts of Silenus, which have images of the gods inside them; and, secondly, to Marsyas the flute-player. For Socrat…”
Answers questions on John Stuart Mill's On Liberty: the harm principle, freedom of thought and the limits of authority, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“…eminded that there was once a man named Socrates, between whom and the legal authorities and public opinion of his time, there took place a memorable collision.…”
Answers questions on Rousseau's The Social Contract: the general will, sovereignty and legitimate government, quoting G. D. H. Cole's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.
“…nt of what I do not know." Thus we find Socrates, the wisest of men in the judgment of the god, and the most learned of all the Athenians in the opinion of all …”
Answers questions on H. G. Wells's A Short History of the World, from the origins of life and the first civilisations to the First World War, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“…arguments. When Pericles died a certain Socrates was becoming prominent as an able and destructive critic of bad argument—and much of the teaching of the Sophis…”
Answers questions on Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil: the prejudices of philosophers, master and slave morality and the free spirit, quoting Helen Zimmern's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“…all interpreters, who lifted the entire Socrates out of the street, as a popular theme and song, to exhibit him in endless and impossible modifications—namely, …”
Answers questions on Aristotle's Politics: the household and the city, citizenship, constitutions, revolutions and the best state, quoting William Ellis's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.
“All the discourses of Socrates are masterly, noble, new, and inquisitive; but that they are all true it may probably be too much to say. For now with respect to…”
Answers questions on Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, the Stoic emperor's private notes, quoting George Long's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.
“…ds another. XXXVII. How know we whether Socrates were so eminent indeed, and of so extraordinary a disposition? For that he died more gloriously, that he disput…”
Answers questions on Seneca's Minor Dialogues: anger, the shortness of life, tranquillity of mind, the happy life and clemency, quoting Aubrey Stewart's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the dialogue.
“… more honourable than any senate house, Socrates addresses you, saying: “What is this madness of yours? what is this disposition, at war alike with gods and men…”