Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Philosophers (Classic Reprint)

Angebote / Angebote:

Excerpt from Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Philosophers It was four hundred seventy years before Christ that Socrates was born. He never wrote a book, never made a formal address, held no public office, wrote no letters, yet his words have come down to us sharp, vivid and crystalline. His face, form and features are to us familiar - his goggle eyes, bald head, snub nose and bow-legs! The habit of his life - his goings and comings, his arguments and wrangles, his infinite leisure, his sublime patience, his perfect faith - all these things are plain, lifting the man out of the commonplace and setting him apart. The "Memorabilia" of Xenophon and the "Dialogues" of Plato give us Boswellian pictures of the man. Knowing the man, we know what he would do, and knowing what he did, we know the man. Socrates was the son of Sophroniscus, a stonecutter, and his wife Phænarete. In boyhood he used to carry dinner to his father, and sitting by, he heard the men, in their free and easy way, discuss the plans of Pericles. These workmen did n't know the plans - they were only privates in the ranks, but they exercised their prerogatives to criticize, and while working to assist, did right royally disparage and condemn. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.