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| | Plato's Apology |
 | | As the seventy-year-old Socrates presents his defense, he brings to our attention a wealth of philosophic concerns: what the good life is--and whether "the unexamined life is not worth living"--the nature of political power, the basis of religious conviction, questions about death and dying, whether truth exists, and a method of philosophic argument and dialogue. |
 | | The body of work Plato left includes the early dialogues in which Socrates is portrayed using a question-and-answer method in his attempt to arrive at true understanding, not just opinion, of virtue or elements of virtue, such as piety in Euthyphro, temperance in Charmides, courage in Laches, and virtue in Meno. |
 | | A great mythical Greek hero, said to have invented part of the alphabet, he was falsely betrayed by Odysseus and stoned to death; leader of some of the forces at the siege of Troy, he competed with Odysseus for the armor of Achilles, but lost and later killed himself |
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