Though his conversations arose from the particular events he lived through, they address questions that stir as much heated discussion today as they did five hundred years ago. Why are people so easily taken in by misleading rhetoric and good appearances? What’s the point of education? Why should winners care about justice? What is true greatness? When should you fight to the death for your beliefs, and when should you stop fighting? How can people be free in a world dominated by a few great powers and by gross inequalities?
