Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

26 PLATO c d e 25 b I suppress anything, trivial or important. Yet I know that it is just this outspokenness which rouses indign ...

APOLOGY 27 c d e 26 b c d very few—namely, those who are skilled with horses—who can improve them, while the majority of men har ...

28 PLATO 27 b c d e 28 SOCRATES: My dear Meletus, do you think that you are prosecuting Anaxagoras? You must have a very poor op ...

APOLOGY 29 b c d e 29 b c d condemned; not Meletus nor Anytus either, but that prejudice and resentment of the mul- titude which ...

30 PLATO d e 31 b c I meet, saying, as I am accustomed, ‘My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great ...

APOLOGY 31 d e 32 b c d e Perhaps it may seem strange to you that, though I go about giving this advice pri- vately and meddling ...

32 PLATO c d e 34 b c d Now do you think that I could have remained alive all these years if I had taken part in public affairs, ...

APOLOGY 33 e 5 b c d I have relatives, too, for, in the words of Homer, I am ‘not born of an oak or a rock’* but of flesh and bl ...

34 PLATO b c d b e 38 neglected the things which most men value, such as wealth, and family interests, and military commands, an ...

APOLOGY 35 b c d e accustomed to think that I deserve anything evil. If I had been rich, I would have pro- posed as large a fine ...

36 PLATO c d e 40 b c many other things which I maintain are unworthy of me, but which you have been accustomed to from other me ...

APOLOGY 37 d e 41 b c d e would certainly have opposed me if I had not been going to meet with something good. And if we reflect ...

38 PLATO 43 b c d 44 CRITO Characters Socrates Crito Scene—The Prison of Socrates SOCRATES: Why have you come at this hour, Crit ...

CRITO 39 b c d e 45 CRITO: And what was this dream? SOCRATES: A fair and beautiful woman, clad in white, seemed to come to me, a ...

40 PLATO b c d e 47 b life, as far as you are concerned, when you might bring them up and educate them. Most likely their fate w ...

CRITO 41 c d e 48 CRITO: He pays attention only to the opinion of the one man. SOCRATES: Then he ought to fear the blame and wel ...

42 PLATO e 49 b c d e that it is just, we will try; if not, we will give up the idea. I am afraid that considerations of expense ...

CRITO 43 50 b c d e 51 b c I believe in it still. But if you differ in any way, explain to me how. If you still hold to our form ...

44 PLATO d e 52 b c d e tell you to do, or you must persuade them that their commands are unjust. But it is impi- ous to use vio ...

CRITO 45 53 b c d went away from Athens less than the lame and the blind and the crippled. Clearly you, far more than other Athe ...