Socrates: A Life Reconstructed from Arguments
100 Lives That Shaped the World · Episode 24
- Historical Biographies
- 40 min
- Ages 12–99
- 10 chapters
About this audiobook
A biography of Socrates built around the source problem, public questioning in democratic Athens, military service, trial, execution, and incompatible portraits left by contemporaries.
Why it's worth a listen
It teaches that the most famous questioning philosopher is known only through other people's literary and political agendas.
A question to keep
How can a life devoted to questioning be reconstructed when every surviving Socrates is someone else's character?
Chapters
- A Verdict Without a Transcript
- Athens at War and at Work
- The Socratic Problem
- Citizen and Soldier
- Questioning in Public
- Students Who Became Dangers
- Religion and the Daimonion
- The Trial
- Prison and Death
- The Founder Everyone Claimed