Socrates

This is a book about Socrates – a man whose contribution to the history of knowledge is truly invaluable. Paradoxically, although his name is known to everyone, there are few reliable facts about his life and teachings. All that we know is contained in the writings of his students or writers of subsequent eras. He himself did not leave a single line. Therefore, it is so difficult to separate the myths that formed over two and a half thousand years around Socrates, from its historical appearance. In this book, the authors tell about this and the other. And about a man who lived a bright life, filled with intellectual and very real adventures. And about the legendary sage who taught people the most important thing – the ability to ask questions correctly. That is, the ability to think properly.

We would not know anything about Socrates, were it not for his two most devoted disciples, the great philosopher Plato, who told of Teacher as a thinker, and the brave warrior, talented strategist Xenophon, who draws Teacher from the personal side. They are also full-fledged heroes of this book, telling not only about Socrates, but also about an entire era – perhaps the most important epoch in the history of Western thought.

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