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Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates, by Plato
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Title: Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates
Author: Plato
Release Date: October 12, 2004 [EBook #13726]
Language: English
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PLATO'S
APOLOGY, CRITO AND PHÆDO OF SOCRATES.
Literally Translated By
HENRY CARY, M.A., Worcester College, Oxford
With An Introduction By
EDWARD BROOKS, JR.
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION
THE APOLOGY OF SOCRATES
INTRODUCTION TO THE CRITO
CRITO; OR, THE DUTY OF A CITIZEN
INTRODUCTION TO THE PHÆDO
PHÆDO; OR, THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL
INTRODUCTION.
Of all writers of speculative philosophy, both ancient and modern, there is probably no one who has attained so eminent a position as Plato. What Homer was to Epic poetry, what Cicero and Demosthenes were to oratory, and what Shakespeare was to the drama of England, Plato was to ancient philosophy, not unapproachable nor unapproached, but possessing an inexplicable but unquestioned supremacy.
The authentic records of his life are meagre, and much that has been written