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Socrates:     more books (100)

The Trial and Death of Socrates by Plato, 2001-06 The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics) by Plato, 2003-04-29 The Journeys of Socrates: An Adventure by Dan Millman, 2006-03-01 What Would Socrates Say?: Philosophers answer your questions about love, nothingness, and everything else by Alexander George, 2007-08-07 The Trial of Socrates by I.F. Stone, 1989-02-27 Socrates Cafe: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy by Christopher Phillips, 2002-04 Conversations of Socrates (Penguin Classics) by Xenophon, 1990-07-03 Four Texts on Socrates: Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito and Aristophanes' Clouds by Thomas G. West, Grace Starry West, 1998-10 From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest by T.Z. Lavine, 1985-02-01 The Trial and Death of Socrates: Four Dialogues (Dover Thrift Editions) by Plato, 1992-02-05 The Last Days of Socrates: Euthyphro; The Apology; Crito; Phaedo (Penguin Classics) by Plato, 1993-12-01 Socrates' Way: Seven Keys to Using Your Mind to the Utmost by Ronald Gross, 2002-10-14 Socrates in Love: Philosophy for a Die-Hard Romantic by Christopher Phillips, 2008-02-05 The Death of Socrates (Profiles in History) by Emily Wilson, 2007-10-15

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1. Socrates - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
   Encyclopedia article about he the ancient Greek philosopher who is widely credited for laying the foundation for Western philosophy.  
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates
   
   Extractions: Ancient philosophy Socrates Name Socrates ( Birth c. 469 BC Death 399 BC School/tradition Classical Greek Socratic school Main interests epistemology ethics Notable ideas Socratic method Socratic irony Influenced by Anaxagoras Parmenides Prodicus Diotima Influenced Plato Aristotle Aristippus Antisthenes ... Western philosophy Socrates Greek c. 470 BC 399 BC ), of the deme Alopece of Athens , was a Classical Greek philosopher . He is best known for the creation of Socratic irony and the Socratic Method , or elenchus . Specifically, Socrates is renowned for developing the practice of a philosophical type of pedagogy , in which the teacher asks questions of the student to elicit the best answer, and fundamental insight, on the part of the student. Socrates is credited with exerting a powerful influence upon the founders of Western philosophy , most particularly Plato and Aristotle , and while Socrates' principal contribution to philosophy is in the field of ethics , he also made important and lasting contributions to the fields of epistemology and logic In attempting to gather accurate information about Socrates, scholars face a specific problem. The problem (widely referred to as the

2. Socrates
   A brief discussion of the life and works of socrates, with links to electronic texts and additional information.  
   http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/socr.htm
   
   Extractions: Internet Sources In his use of critical reasoning, by his unwavering commitment to truth, and through the vivid example of his own life, fifth-century Athenian Socrates set the standard for all subsequent Western philosophy. Since he left no literary legacy of his own, we are dependent upon contemporary writers like Aristophanes and Xenophon for our information about his life and work. As a pupil of Archelaus during his youth, Socrates showed a great deal of interest in the scientific theories of Anaxagoras , but he later abandoned inquiries into the physical world for a dedicated investigation of the development of moral character. Having served with some distinction as a soldier at Delium and Amphipolis during the Peloponnesian War, Socrates dabbled in the political turmoil that consumed Athens after the War, then retired from active life to work as a stonemason and to raise his children with his wife, Xanthippe. After inheriting a modest fortune from his father, the sculptor Sophroniscus, Socrates used his marginal financial independence as an opportunity to give full-time attention to inventing the practice of philosophical dialogue. For the rest of his life, Socrates devoted himself to free-wheeling discussion with the aristocratic young citizens of Athens, insistently questioning their unwarranted confidence in the truth of popular opinions, even though he often offered them no clear alternative teaching. Unlike the professional

3. Greek Philosophy: Socrates
   A brief overview of socrates place in Greek philosophy.  
   http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/GREECE/SOCRATES.HTM
   
   Extractions: Ancient Greece The Peloponnesian Wars History . The growing power of Athens had frightened other Greek states for years before the Peloponnesian War broke out in 431. During the war, Pericles died in the plague of Athens (429); fortunes of war varied until a truce was made in 421, but this was never very stable and in 415 Athens was persuaded by Alcibiades , a pupil of the Athenian teacher, Socrates, to send a huge force to Sicily in an attempt to take over some of the cities there. This expedition was destroyed in 413. Nevertheless Athens continued the war. In 411 an oligarchy ("rule by a few") was instituted in Athens in an attempt to secure financial support from Persia, but this did not work out and the democracy was soon restored. In 405 the last Athenian fleet was destroyed in the battle of Aegospotami by a Spartan commander, and the city was besieged and forced to surrender in 404. Sparta set up an oligarchy of Athenian nobles (among them Critias, a former associate of Socrates and a relative of Plato), which because of its brutality became known as the Thirty Tyrants. By 403 democracy was once again restored. Socrates was brought to trial and executed in 399.

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   At socrates, the home of know how made ez, you can find legal forms online. Search the complete library of human resource forms, contractor forms and  
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   Extractions: Your Opinion Tell Us What You Think. Click here to take our survey and tell us what you think of our site. We want your feedback! Are you thinking about becoming a landlord? Are you leasing residential or commercial property? Are you buying or selling a home? Use our best selling Real Estate products to make key decisions and complete transactions yourself. Are you thinking about filing for bankruptcy? The Bankruptcy Reform Law of 2005 vastly changes how bankruptcy can be declared and makes it much more difficult to file. Learn about the changes that went into effect October 17, 2005, to help decide whether you should file and, if so, under which Chapter.

5. EUROPA - Education And Training - Socrates, The European Community Action Progra
   socrates, the European Community action programme for cooperation in the field of education.  
   http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/socrates/socrates_en.html
   
   Extractions: COMENIUS School education ERASMUS Higher education GRUNDTVIG Adult education and other educational pathways LINGUA Language teaching and learning MINERVA Information and communication technologies in education Educational systems and policies ( Arion Eurydice Naric Joint Actions with other Community programmes Accompanying Measures Would you like to participate? Would you like to know more? The Memorandum of Understanding establishing Turkey's participation in the Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci and Youth programmes has been signed by the Commission and the Turkish authorities on 15 April 2004 and has been published in the Turkish Official Gazette on 8 May. This MoU has now entered into force. It takes effect retrospectively as from 1 April 2004.

6. The Last Days Of Socrates
   Online texts of the Apology, Crito, Euthrypho, and Phaedo. Includes Jowett notes, as well as drawings to aid the reader new to Greek philosophy.  
   http://socrates.clarke.edu/

7. Socrates - History For Kids!
   socrates for Kids The Greek philosopher socrates.  
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   Extractions: Socrates for Kids - who was Socrates? what did he do? why did the Athenians want to kill Socrates? Socrates This is supposed to be of Socrates, but it was made after he had already been dead for some time, by someone who did not know what Socrates looked like. Socrates was the first of the three great Athenian philosophers (the other two are Plato and Aristotle ). Socrates was born in Athens in 469 BC , so he lived through the time of Pericles and the Athenian Empire, though he was too young to remember Marathon or Salamis . He was not from a rich family. His father was probably a stone-carver, and Socrates also worked in stone , especially as a not-very-good sculptor . Socrates' mother was a midwife . When the Peloponnesian War began, Socrates fought bravely for Athens. We do not have any surviving pictures of Socrates that were made while he was alive, or by anyone who ever saw him, but he is supposed to have been ugly. But when Socrates was in his forties or so, he began to feel an urge to think about the world around him, and try to answer some difficult questions. He asked, "What is wisdom?" and "What is beauty?" and "What is the right thing to do?" He knew that these questions were hard to answer, and he thought it would be better to have a lot of people discuss the answers together, so that they might come up with more ideas. So he began to go around Athens asking people he met these questions, "What is wisdom?" , "What is piety?", and so forth. Sometimes the people just said they were busy, but sometimes they would try to answer him. Then Socrates would try to teach them to think better by asking them more questions which showed them the problems in their logic. Often this made people angry. Sometimes they even tried to beat him up.

8. Socrates (Stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy)
   The philosopher socrates remains, as he was in his lifetime (469–399 B.C.E.),1 an enigma, an inscrutable individual who, despite having written nothing,  
   http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/socrates/
   
   Extractions: reproduced with permission of the Brancusi Estate an enigma, an inscrutable individual who, despite having written nothing, is considered one of the handful of philosophers who forever changed how philosophy itself was to be conceived. All our information about him is second-hand and most of it vigorously disputed, but his trial and death at the hands of the Athenian democracy is nevertheless the founding myth of the academic discipline of philosophy, and his influence has been felt far beyond philosophy itself, and in every age. Because his life is widely considered paradigmatic for the philosophic life and, more generally, for how anyone ought So thorny is the difficulty of distinguishing the historical Socrates from the Socrateses of the authors of the texts in which he appears and, moreover, from the Socrateses of scores of later interpreters, that the whole contested issue is generally referred to as the Socratic problem 1. Socrates' strangeness

9. Socrates Quotes - The Quotations Page
   socrates, Quoted in Plato s Apology, sct. 42a. Last words of his speech to the court following the sentence of death imposed on him by the Athenians.  
   http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Socrates

10. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Socrates
    socrates was, above all things, a reformer. He was alarmed at the condition of affairs in Athens, a condition which he was, perhaps, right in ascribing to  
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    Extractions: Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers ... S > Socrates Greek philosopher and educational reformer of the fifth century B.C.; born at Athens , 469 B.C.; died there, 399 B.C. After having received the usual Athenian education in music (which included literature), geometry, and gymnastics, he practised for a time the craft of sculptor , working, we are told, in his father's workshop. Admonished, as he tells us, by a divine call, he gave up his occupation in order to devote himself to the moral and intellectual reform of his fellow citizens. He believed himself destined to become "a sort of gadfly" to the Athenian State. He devoted himself to this mission with extraordinary zeal and singleness of purpose. He never left the City of Athens except on two occasions, one of which was the campaign of Potidea and Delium, and the other a public religious festival. In his work as reformer he encountered, indeed he may be said to have provoked, the opposition of the Sophists and their influential friends. He was the most unconventional of teachers and the least tactful. He delighted in assuming all sorts of rough and even vulgar mannerisms, and purposely shocked the more refined sensibilities of his fellow citizens. The opposition to him culminated in formal accusations of impiety and subversion of the existing moral traditions. He met these accusations in a spirit of defiance and, instead of defending himself, provoked his opponents by a speech in presence of his judges in which he

11. British Council - Lifelong Learning Programme
    Welcome to the socrates website. socrates is a European Union education programme that supports European cooperation on a range of educational projects,  
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    Extractions: Text only Print this page E-mail this page Add to favourites ... Suggest similar pages The EU Lifelong Learning Programme The EU Socrates programme has now finished its second phase (2000 - 2006) and has been replaced by the EU Lifelong Learning Programme, which consists of four main actions; Comenius; Leonardo; Grundtvig; and Erasmus, plus transversal actions. The British Council manages the Comenius and Erasmus actions. The Leonardo, Grundtvig and Transversal actions are now managed by Ecotec. You can find more information about the Lifelong Learning programme in the UK at www.lifelonglearningprogramme.org.uk For enquiries, contact us on 0161 957 7755 or general.enquiries@britishcouncil.org Comenius - Schools Erasmus - Higher Education The Lifelong Learning Programme in the UK ... Comenius - SCHOOLS Comenius is the action that provides opportunities for schools and colleges to work on joint projects and undertake professional development within Europe. Find out more Erasmus - Higher Education Erasmus is the European Community programme for higher education, encouraging cooperation between institutions and boosting staff and student mobility for work and study.

12. Socrates - A Biography Of Socrates Life
    This web site contains a ful account of the life of socrates and his philosophy.  
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    Extractions: (After Socrates) Socrates - Greek philosopher The ancient Greek philosopher Socrates is best known today through his appearance in the Dialogues of Plato. Socrates left no writings behind him, and indeed was by his principles precluded from dogmatic exposition. The only records we have of the life Socrates are through the previously mentioned Dialogues, and the records and works of Xenophon, a noted Ancient Greek historian. Xenophon having no philosophical views of his own to develop, and no imagination to lead him astray is an excellent witness. Plato, though he understood his master better, is a less trustworthy authority, as he makes Socrates the mouthpiece of his own more advanced and even antagonistic doctrine. Yet to all appearance The Apology is a careful and exact account of Socrates’s habits and principles of action; the earlier dialogues, those which are commonly called “Socratic,” represent Socrates’ method; and if in the later and more important dialogues the doctrine is the doctrine of Plato, echoes of the master’s teaching are still discoverable, approving themselves as such by their accord with the Xenophonean testimony. It is in the face of these two principal witnesses that The Life of Socrates may be constructed.

13. SOCRATES
    socrates software is designed as a tool to assist local Texas planners perform a regional labor market analysis. socrates is useful for local workforce  
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14. The Trial Of Socrates
    A collection of primary documents, essays, maps, images and other materials relating to the trial of socrates in 399 BC.  
    http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/socrates/socrates.HTM
    
    Extractions: (Plato) Apology ... The Trial of Socrates The trial and execution of of Socrates in Athens in 399 B.C.E. puzzles historians. Why, in a society enjoying more freedom and democracy than any the world had ever seen, would a seventy-year-old philosopher be put to death for what he was teaching? The puzzle is all the greater because Socrates had taughtwithout molestationall of his adult life. What could Socrates have said or done than prompted a jury of 500 Athenians to send him to his death just a few years before he would have died naturally? Finding an answer to the mystery of the trial of Socrates is complicated by the fact that the two surviving accounts of the defense (or apology) of Socrates both come from disciples of his, Plato and Xenophon. Historians suspect that Plato and Xenophon, intent on showing their master in a favorable light, failed to present in their accounts the most damning evidence against Socrates. [ CONTINUED Famous Trials Homepage Images ... I.F. Stone Interview on the Trial

15. Socrates --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia
    Britannica online encyclopedia article on socrates Greek philosopher whose way of life, character, and thought exerted a profound influence on ancient and  
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    Extractions: Table of Contents Introduction Philosophical and literary sources Xenophon Plato Aristotle ... The legacy of Socrates Additional Reading General studies Historical background The trial Athenian persecution of intellectuals ... Print this Table of Contents Linked Articles Aristotle Antisthenes Aeschines Shopping

16. Philosophers : Socrates
    socrates himself left no writings, and most of our knowledge of him and his teachings comes from the dialogues of his most famous pupil, PLATO,  
    http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/phil/philo/phils/socrates.html

17. Socrates Quotes
    46 quotes and quotations by socrates. socrates An honest man is always a child. socrates As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.  
    http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/socrates.html

18. Mr. Dowling's Greek Philosophy Page
    socrates was a philosopher who taught by asking questions. His questions enraged the leaders of Athens, and he was condemned to death in 399BC.  
    http://www.mrdowling.com/701-socrates.html
    
    Extractions: Home E-Mail Download Lessons Interactive Quiz ... South America Socrates Socrates was a Greek philosopher who taught by asking questions. When teachers ask questions that encourage students to draw conclusions, they are using the "Socratic method" of teaching. The oracle of the prominent polis of Delphi pronounced Socrates the wisest man in Greece. Socrates concluded that while others professed knowledge they did not have, he knew how little he knew. Socrates asked many questions, but he gave few answers. He often denied knowing the answers to the questions he asked. Socrates was a well-known teacher in Athens. He drifted around the city with his students, engaging many people in arguments about "justice, bravery, and piety." What we know about Socrates comes from what others wrote about him. Socrates did not write any books because he believed in the superiority of argument over writing. Socrates' students wrote that he believed that evil is ignorance, and that virtue could be taught. According to this philosophy, all values are related to knowledge. Evil is ignorance, and virtue can be taught.

19. The Greeks - Characters: Socrates
    Interactive Timeline The Acropolis Experience The Making of the Greeks Educational Resources Site Index  
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20. Socrates - MSN Encarta
    socrates (469399bc), Greek philosopher, who profoundly affected Western philosophy through his influence on Plato. Born in Athens, the son of  
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    Extractions: var s_account="msnportalencarta"; MSN home Mail My MSN Sign in ... more Hotmail Messenger My MSN MSN Directory Air Tickets/Travel Autos City Guides Election 2008 ... More Additional Reference Materials Thesaurus Translations Multimedia Other Resources Education Resources Math Help Foreign Language Help Project Planner ... Help Editors' Picks Great books about your topic, Socrates , selected by Encarta editors Related Items more... Encarta Search Search Encarta about Socrates Also on Encarta Secret students What colleges really want Famous misquotes quiz Advertisement Encyclopedia Article Find Print E-mail Blog It Multimedia 2 items Article Outline Introduction Attitude Toward Politics Teachings The Trial I Print this section Socrates bc ), Greek philosopher, who profoundly affected Western philosophy through his influence on Plato . Born in Athens, the son of Sophroniscus, a sculptor, and Phaenarete, a midwife, he received the regular elementary education in literature, music, and gymnastics. Later he familiarized himself with the rhetoric and dialectics of the Sophists , the speculations of the Ionian philosophers, and the general culture of Periclean Athens. Initially, Socrates followed the craft of his father; according to a former tradition, he executed a statue group of the three Graces, which stood at the entrance to the Acropolis until the 2nd century

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