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02391aam a2200313Ii 4500 001 02F66FFC76C611EDA59A075055ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221208010029 008 221028s2022 nyua j b 001 0beng 010 $a 2021061962 020 $a 164421136X 020 $a 9781644211366 035 $a (OCoLC)1349226844 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c LNC $d LNC $d LE# $d SILO 043 $a e-gr--- 100 1 $a Lehmann, Devra, $e author. 245 10 $a Socrates : $b a life worth living / $c Devra Lehmann. 264 1 $a New York : $b Seven Stories Press, $c [2022] 300 $a xvii, 379 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm 500 $a "Philosophy for young people." 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The city of gods and humans -- The way to citizenship -- The young intellectual -- The nature of reality -- Questions for an age of humanism -- The growth of a following -- The sophists -- Knowledge and morality -- The democracy and the spartan alternative -- Athens on the ascent -- Potidaea and the welcome return -- Crisis and cruelty -- Definitions of courage -- The clouds -- Family and divine mission -- Melos, Alcibiades, and the teachability of virtue -- The conscientious objector -- The charges and the question of piety -- The trial -- Sentencing and imprisonment -- The fatal drink. 520 $a "Socrates: A Life Worth Living traces the life and ideas of one of Western Civilization's founding philosophers, whose influence is still felt more than two thousand years later. Socrates is famous for how he died, executed by the Athenian government for corrupting the youth of Athens, but his most important contribution was to challenge the people around him to test their ideas and beliefs in conversation with each other, in the belief that in this way we could become a society that knows the difference between truth and falsehood, and find what makes a life worthwhile. He did not claim to have definitive answers, but he knew that knowledge was the key to finding them, and he invited everyone he met to join him in his quest"-- $c Provided by publisher. 521 2 $a Grades: 10-12 $b Seven Stories Press 941 $a 3 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010031226.0 952 $l CMPE792 $d 20230629015207.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20221208010534.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=02F66FFC76C611EDA59A075055ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search