Greek Context
One would often find Socrates roaming around this Greek city looking for someone to talk to.
Where is Athens?
This text formulate's Plato's attempt to define the Form of Justice.
What is The Republic of Plato?
The eternal and perfect representations of each and every thing, being, concept, etc, existing in a special third-realm.
What are The Forms?
This was one of the charges levied against Socrates.
What is corrupting the youth? (and disparaging the gods)
This famous cynic threw a plucked chicken at Plato during a lesson to prove a point.
These were a special class of teachers that famously held (in general) that either side of an argument could be proved true if one's rhetoric was strong enough.
Who are The Sophists?
This text features the monumental defense performed by Socrates at his own trial.
What is The Apology?
This is a story metaphorically demonstrating how our conception of reality is flawed and imperfect.
What is The Allegory of the Cave?
This friend and accomplice of Socrates attempted to help him escape his death sentence.
Who is Crito?
This was what Socrates' suggested for his punishment at his trial.
What is free food for life?
Most people in Athen held this kind of religious belief.
What is polytheism?
This text introduces a still unsolved (yet infrequently discussed) dilemma.
What is The Euthyphro?
The mode of analysis through which Socrates deconstructs a claim; having the goal at attaining the truth of the matter.
What is the Platonic Dialectic?
In Apology, Socrates famously claimed that he was lacking, more than anyone, in this virtue.
What is Wisdom?
The most common ad hominem attack against Socrates.
What is his poor appearance?
These were a set of philosophers whose approach resembled some closer to natural science.
Who are the Pre-Socratics?
This text tells the tale of the final moment's of Socrates' life.
What is The Phaedo?
While Plato's later dialogues are far more constructive, his early dialogues are this.
What is deconstructive?
This person is the main accuser/prosecutor of Socrates.
Who is Meletus?
The reason Plato was not present at the death of his teacher.
What is a sick day?
It can be argued that this factor, relating to how one is able to spend one's day, influenced the rise of philosophy greatly.
What is leisure?
This is the only text not featuring Socrates.
What is Laws?
A claim famously postulated by Plato that relates to our epistemic position, our capacity for education, and our relationship to our bodies.
What is the immortality of the soul?
As the story goes, the last discussion Socrates had, outside the courthouse, was with this person.
Who is Euthyphro?
An aspiration of Plato's that failed miserably.
What is a political career?