PLATO

DEFENCE OF SOCRATES EUTHYPHRO CRITO

Translated with an Introduction and Note by David Gallop

An unexamined life is no life for a human being to live These new translations present Plato's remarkable dramatization of the moments events surrounding the trial of Socrates in 300 Con charges of irreligion and exerupting the young

In the Defence of Socrates, Plato seks not only to clear his master's name, but ales to defend the whole Scratic way of life, and therefore philosophy tlf The Euthyphre, an inquiry into the nature of piety, probes the relationship between religion and morality. The Crito discusses the citizen's obligation to the state, in the context of a life or death me confronting Socrates himself whether or not to escape from prisem

The Butliyphro. Defence of Socrates, and Crito form a dramatic and thema sequence, raising fundamental questions about the basis of mera religious, legal, and political obligation. Plato explores these issues w freshness and directness that have never been surpassed