Representative Men · Character
Socrates
The barefoot Athenian whose questions turned Plato from a soldier's life to philosophy, and whose death sent his student wandering for a decade.
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First appearance: Plato; or, the Philosopher
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Emerson treats Socrates as the hinge on which Plato's whole biography turns: a young patrician with a taste for war meets this teacher in his twentieth year, is dissuaded from the sword, and stays ten years as his…
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