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.