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Socrates: 'I Know That I Know Nothing' — The Man Who Brought Philosophy Down to the Streets
Socrates wrote nothing, yet through relentless dialogue he exposed false knowledge and redirected philosophy toward lived inquiry.
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Plato: 'The Forms' — The Philosopher Who Discovered an Invisible World of Truth
Plato framed reality through the Forms and built philosophy as dialogue, shaping Western thought through the Academy and beyond.
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Plato's Phaedo: Four Arguments for the Soul's Immortality — Read in Dialogue Order
Set on the day of Socrates' execution, Plato's Phaedo develops four arguments for the soul's immortality.
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Plato's Apology of Socrates: Philosophy on Trial — A Record of the Man Who Argued for the Examined Life at the Cost of His Own
In 399 BCE Socrates stood before an Athenian jury of over 500 citizens, charged with impiety and corrupting the youth. Plato's Apology records how, facing a death sentence, the philosopher declared that 'the unexamined life is not worth living' and refused to abandon his mission of inquiry to the very end.