| Socrates in 90 Minutes Lib/E Contributor(s): Strathern, Paul (Author), Vance, Simon (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1433267926 ISBN-13: 9781433267925 Publisher: Blackstone Publishing OUR PRICE: $24.30 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: March 2009 Annotation: In Socrates in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Socrates' life and ideas and explains their influence on mans struggle to understand his existence in the world. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Philosophers - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical - Biography & Autobiography | Historical |
| Dewey: B |
| Series: Philosophers in 90 Minutes |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.5" W x 6.2" (0.40 lbs) 1 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Theometrics - Secular - Cultural Region - Greece |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Just a century after it had begun, philosophy entered its greatest age with the appearance of Socrates, who spent so much of his time talking about philosophy on the streets of Athens that he never got around to writing anything down. His method of aggressive questioning, called dialectic, was used to cut through the palaver of his adversaries and arrive at the truth. Socrates saw the world as not accessible to our senses, only to thought. Finally charged with impiety and the corruption of youth, he was tried and sentenced to death-and ended his life by drinking the judicial hemlock. In Socrates in 90 minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Socrates' life and ideas and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world. |
Contributor Bio(s): Strathern, Paul: - Paul Strathern earned a degree in philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin, and has lectured in philosophy and mathematics. The author of many nonfiction books and of articles for numerous publications, he has also written several novels and has won the Somerset Maugham Prize. He lives and writes in London. Vance, Simon: -Simon Vance is an award-winning actor and an AudioFile Golden Voice with over fifty Earphones Awards and thirteen prestigious Audie Awards. He was named Booklist's very first Voice of Choice in 2008 and an AudioFile Best Voice of 2009. |
