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Rich in drama and humor, this volume of seven dialogues includes the controversial Ion, a debate on poetic inspiration; Laches, in which Socrates seeks to define bravery; and Euthydemus, which considers the relationship between philosophy and politics. Together, these dialogues provide a definitive portrait of the real Socrates and raise issues still keenly debated by philosophers, forming an incisive overview of Plato's philosophy.
As the father of Western philosophy, who transformed Greek thought with his questioning insights into life and ethics, Socrates was a powerful inspiration—and major irritant—to the Athenians of his day. After his trial and execution on charges of heresy and the corruption of young minds, his greatest pupil, Plato, wrote these early dialogues as an act of homage.
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Barry Corrigan
reviewed Early Socratic Dialogues on August 10, 2017 Early Socratic Dialogues
Plato is revolutionary, full stop. He was revolutionary thousands of years ago, he is still revolutionary now. Like that one joke by whatever famous comedian, about drugs and whatnot --basically he use to do them, and he still does; well I think this specific comedian might have died, this is besides the point. The point, that is, that Plato is and was and will be revolutionary. As to this book, it has introductions and interpretations for each dialogue, don't read them first. Read the dialogue first then the introduction; in fact, read the dialogue, WRITE your own introduction, and then compare your introduction to the introduction in the book and see how far off the mark you were. Then read the dialogue again.
These are considered the earlier Socratic dialogues, if you're interested in the historical Socrates you will find him, in part, in these dialogues. Plato does not use him as much of a mouth piece until Plato espouses through Socrates a Theory of Ideas after book 1 of the Republic. These specific dialogues are before then.
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