Socrates

A Life Worth Living

Socrates
Devra Lehmann
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Hardback
h210 x 140mm - 288pg
24 May 2022 US
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9781644211366
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A lively and accessible introduction to the quintessential philosopher, and the civilized world' s first enemy of the state. Socrates- A Life Worth Living traces the life and ideas of one of Western Civilization' s founding philosophers, whose influence is still felt more than two thousand years later. Socrates is famous for how he died, executed by the Athenian government for corrupting the youth of Athens, but his most important contribution was to challenge the people around him to test their ideas and beliefs in conversation with each other, in the belief that in this way we could become a society that knows the difference between truth and falsehood, and find what makes a life worthwhile. He did not claim to have definitive answers, but he knew that knowledge was the key to finding them, and he invited everyone he met to join him in his quest. The Socratic Method is the first, and still the best, method for distinguishing truth from falsehood. In Socrates- A Life Worth Living, award-winning author Devra Lehmann gives us the first biography for young readers of the thinker who has seen no equal.
DEVRA LEHMANN is the author of Spinoza- The Outcast Thinker, which won the 2014 National Jewish Book Award for Children' s and Young Adult Literature. In her 35 years in the classroom, she has taught preschoolers to sound out monosyllables, high schoolers to read Shakespeare, and adults to parse Talmudic passages. She is now at work on a young adult biography of Augustine of Hippo.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781644211366
Published: 24 May 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Seven Stories Press (US)
Publisher: Seven Stories Press (US)
Format: Hardback
Height: 210mm
Width: 140mm
Pages: 288

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