Plato's Progeny: How Plato and Socrates Still Captivate the Modern Mind

by Melissa Lane

Book Overview

Socrates wrote nothing; Plato's accounts of Socrates helped to establish western politics, ethics, and metaphysics. Both have played crucial and dramatically changing roles in western culture. In the last two centuries, the triumph of democracy has led many to side with the Athenians against a Socrates whom they were right to kill. Meanwhile, the Cold War gave us polar images of Plato as both a dangerous totalitarian and an escapist intellectual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0715628925
• ISBN13: 9780715628928
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"