The Apology by Plato
The Classical Mind
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Socrates and Platonism
I do think the way I've always understood Socrates and my exposure to him is much more limited than than yours. But it seems like he is so dedicated to truth and to beauty and to goodness and to all these virtues that that he inevitably comes up against some of the sort of external boundaries of the polytheistic world in which he inhabits. So he operates within those categories, but he doesn't really buy them 100% either. And thus, you know, maybe it's almost inevitable that he's going to run against people, right? But run against the sensibilities of his day.
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