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Socrates
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- ISBN
- 9781533119667
- Book Title
- Socrates
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- CreateSpace
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.1in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Literary
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 3.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 36 Pages
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Socrates (French: Socrate), written by Voltaire, the famous French philosopher in the mid 18th century, is a play in three acts that concerns itself with Socrates and the events just before his death during his trial. It is heavy with satire specifically at government authority and organized religion. The main characters besides the titular role is that of the priest Anitus, his entourage, Socrates' wife Xantippe, several judges, and some children Socrates has adopted as his own. Like more historical accounts by Herodotus, Plato, and Xenophon, the playwright shows Socrates as a moral individual charged with baseless accusations by a conspiracy of corrupt Athenians or Athenian officials although Voltaire implies that the wrongdoers are a select few. Unlike the historical account, Socrates deals with several judges, whereas his real life counterpart receives his punishment of death by hemlock by a jury of 500 Athenians. The presence or mention of Socrates' best-known students such as Plato, Antisthenes, Zeno of Citium, and others are replaced by unnamed disciples, delivering only a few token lines at the end of the play. Socrates is also portrayed as a monotheist and a victim of religious persecution, an interpretation that is not generally shared by modern scholars and historians. Generally, this is not the most well-known of his works in comparison with Letters on the English which Voltaire published in 1778 or the Dictionnaire philosophique published earlier in 1764. However, hints of his contempt for government and religion are apparent here which later influenced the leaders of the American Revolution and the French Revolution.
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Publisher
CreateSpace
ISBN-10
153311966x
ISBN-13
9781533119667
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8038789691
Product Key Features
Book Title
Socrates
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literary
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
36 Pages
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Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
3.7 Oz
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