Socratic questioning · c. 469–399 BCE
Socrates
A question can change a life.
Athens, Greece
Reading guides
A thread to guide your reading.
Original introductions to enter the works, discover their central questions and take the reflection further.
What does it mean to examine a life?
Enter Apology through Socrates’ mission, his encounters and the difference between knowing and appearing to know. A guide to Plato’s text, without assuming that it reproduces every word of the trial.
Plato — Apology of SocratesMust we always obey the law?
Follow Crito’s argument without turning it into a slogan of absolute obedience. The dialogue brings together injustice suffered, commitments made and the responsibility of the person who acts.
Plato — CritoMeeting more than one Socrates
Discover Xenophon’s Socrates and learn to compare testimonies. A way to read the sources without inventing a body of writings authored by Socrates.
Xenophon — Memorabilia