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I'll be posting snippets from books I'm currently reading in my limited free time. 📖 🥸
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What's the one book you've either read or reread (new or old) this year that you absolutely think everyone else should check out?

Mine is Plato's "The Trial & Death of Socrates" 📖
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The opening of the Introduction of Plato's The Trial & Death of Socrates reads "At the time of his trial and execution in 399 B.C. , Socrates was seventy years of age. He had lived through the Periclean age when Athens was at the pinnacle of her imperial power and her cultural ascendancy, then through twenty-five years of war with Sparta and the final defeat of Athens in 404, the oligarchic revolution that followed, and, finally, the restoration of democracy. For most of this time he was a well-known character, expounding his philosophy of life in the streets of Athens to anyone who cared to listen. His “mission,” which he explains in the Apology, was to expose the ignorance of those who thought themselves wise and to try to convince his fellow citizens that every man is responsible for his own moral attitudes. The early dialogues of Plato, of which Euthyphro is a good example, show him seeking to define ethical terms and asking awkward questions. There is no reason to suppose that these questions were restricted to the life of the individual. Indeed, if he questioned the basic principles of democracy and adopted towards it anything like the attitude Plato attributes to him, it is no wonder the restored democracy should consider him to have a bad influence on the young. With the development of democracy and in the intellectual ferment of the fifth century, a need was felt for higher education."
October 14, 2025 at 4:05 AM