Month: March 2022

Hippias Minor! (Synopsis – highlights & unredacted quotes lifted from the Socratic dialogue by Plato, Benjamin Jowett translation)

THEME: Discussion about who are the better – those who intentionally err or those who do so involuntarily? EUDICUS: Why are you silent, Socrates, after the magnificent display which Hippias has been making? Why do you not either refute his words, if he seems to you to have been wrong in any point, or join with us in … Continue reading Hippias Minor! (Synopsis – highlights & unredacted quotes lifted from the Socratic dialogue by Plato, Benjamin Jowett translation) →

First Alcibiades! (Synopsis – highlights & unredacted quotes lifted from the Socratic dialogue by Plato, Benjamin Jowett translation)

THEMES: On the essence of politics, on war and peace, weighing on whether justice and expediency are really disparate, on the nature of justice and injustice, on the ruling principle in man, on the meaning of the Delphian inscription “Know thyself” SOCRATES: I dare say that you may be surprised to find, O son of Cleinias, … Continue reading First Alcibiades! (Synopsis – highlights & unredacted quotes lifted from the Socratic dialogue by Plato, Benjamin Jowett translation) →