{"product_id":"the-great-philosophers-socrates-mass-market-paperbound","title":"The Great Philosophers: Socrates - Mass Market Paperbound","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnthony Gottlieb\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'If you put me to death, ' Socrates warned his Athenian judges, 'you will not easily find anyone to take my place.'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo indeed it would prove, a single cup of hemlock robbing the western philosophical tradition of its founding father. Yet Socrates' influence was not so easily to be done away with. His words were lovingly recorded by his devoted disciple Plato, and his teachings have survived for twenty-seven centuries. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e His sense of education as self-discovery and his view of philosophy as preparation for life have been the stuff of western thought at its best. So completely did Socrates embody these values, he was prepared to die in their defence.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnthony Gottlieb is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a former executive editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e and former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.34 x 7.12 x 4.46 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 22, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48394529767645,"sku":"9781474616768","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/pCfypTe8QR9781474616768.webp?v=1787163639","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/the-great-philosophers-socrates-mass-market-paperbound","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}