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15 - Socrates without Plato: the Accounts of Aristophanes and Xenophon
• S. Ahbel-Rappe and R. Kamtekar (eds.), A Companion to Socrates (Oxford: Blackwell, ).
• D.R. Morrison, Bibliography of Editions, Translations and Commentary on Xenophon’s Socratic Writings, Present (Pittsburgh: ).
• W. Prior (ed.), Socrates: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, 4 vols (London: ).
• D.K. O’Connor, “Socrates and Political Ambition: The Dangerous Game” in Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 14 (),
• M. Trapp, Socrates from Antiquity to the Enlightenment (Aldershot: ).
• P.A. Vander Waerdt (ed.), The Socratic Movement (Ithaca: ).
• Xenophon, Conversations of Socrates, trans. H. Treddenick and R. Waterfield (London: ).
Aristophanes, "The Clouds": online text
Stanford Encylopedia: Socrates
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Socrates biography video walt
Listen to Karen Armstrong explain why she chose Socrates
'The unexamined life is not worth living.'
The man who popularised the term philosopher, Socrates influenced philosophy so much that all previous thinkers have come to be known as Pre-Socratic.
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Despite this he declared "All I know is that I know nothing".
Socrates was a man of great intellectual brilliance, moral integrity, personal magnetism, and physical self-command. Not one to cloister himself away he would debate with anyone, young or old, rich or poor.
In this way he challenged the moral complacency of his fellow citizens, embarrassing them with the contradictions of their lives and the way they used words without really thinking about them.
By the age of seventy, Socrates had got under the skin of his fellow Athenians