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The Trial and Death of Socrates: Four Dialogues (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Plato

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 rating: 4 of 5 stars Definitely "worth the time" - Fromm would be rolling in his grave if he read that. Honestly, it is a wonderful book that gives insight into one of the most brilliant intellectuals that ever lived. He is one of the few men that holistically lived according to his canon of reason in both word and deed, even when deed manifested itself as poison. 
 
 I love his dialogues with his friends and the philosophical discussions on death, the soul, and the Socratic Method evident throughout the entire book. 
 
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 “I am better off than he is, - for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows. I neither know nor think that I know. In this latter particular, then, I seem to have slightly the advantage of him.”
 
 “I certainly have many enemies, and this is what will be my destruction if I am destroyed; of that I am certain…but the envy and detraction of the world, which has been the death of many good men, and will probably be the death of many more; there is no danger of my being the last of them.”
 
 “I care not a straw for death, and that my only fear was the fear of doing an unrighteous or unholy thing. For the strong arm of that oppressive power did into frighten me into doing wrong.” 
 
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Definitely "worth the time" - Fromm would be rolling in his grave if he read that. Honestly, it is a wonderful book that gives insight into one of the most brilliant intellectuals that ever lived. He is one of the few men that holistically lived according to his canon of reason in both word and deed, even when deed manifested itself as poison.

I love his dialogues with his friends and the philosophical discussions on death, the soul, and the Socratic Method evident throughout the entire book.

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“I am better off than he is, - for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows. I neither know nor think that I know. In this latter particular, then, I seem to have slightly the advantage of him.”

“I certainly have many enemies, and this is what will be my destruction if I am destroyed; of that I am certain…but the envy and detraction of the world, which has been the death of many good men, and will probably be the death of many more; there is no danger of...more

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message 1: by Dennis

06/22/2007 11:49AM

Yes, but he's so...socratic, don't you think? :)