Adam Glantz

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Xenophon agrees with Plato that Socrates did nothing to avoid death once he’d been brought to trial. Far from it: in fact he went out of his way to outrage and offend the jurors in his impromptu defense speech. In both versions, but especially that of Xenophon, Socrates is stunningly arrogant.
Classical Philosophy (A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps #1)
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