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Plato's Trial of Athens (Hardcover)
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Plato's Trial of Athens (Hardcover)
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Ancient Philosophy
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What can we learn about the trial of Socrates from Plato's
dialogues? Most scholars say we can learn a lot from the Apology,
but not from the rest. Plato's Trial of Athens rejects this
assumption and argues that Plato used several of his dialogues to
turn the tables on Socrates' accusers: they blamed Socrates for
something the city had done to itself. Plato wanted to set the
record straight and save his city from repeating her worst mistakes
of the 5th century. Plato's Trial of Athens addresses challenging
questions about the historicity of Plato's dialogues, and it traces
Plato's critique of Athenian public life and polis culture from the
trial in 399 up through the Laws and the Atlantis myth in the
Critias and Timaeus. In the end, Ralkowski shows that what began as
a bitter response to the unjust, politically-charged trial of
Socrates, evolved into a pessimistic reflection on the role of
philosophy in a democratic society, a theory about Athens' 5th
century decline, and cautionary tale about the corrupting
influences of naval imperialism.
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