Socrates
In Our Time: Philosophy
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Plato's Account of Socrates
There's a tradition from antiquity that socrates said nothing at his trial, isnt isn't there? You know, thatth he justad there was silence. And it was plato and xenophon who desperately tried to put into his mouth the words they felt he should or would have said. But do we really know that that was right? No, we don't. The extracting the historical facts about the trial is probably a hopeless task. What we really have to say is we live, for better or worse, we live with plato's account,. He was determine. That's right. One of theo occasions when plato mentions himself in his workss when socrates mentions
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