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Gives a good, concise overview of the most important questions and insights from Socrates' most famous and important dialogues, that is very readable for a young audience and can also be used in teaching.
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"Reading this again, this time with teenagers in high school (15 - 16 year olds) for the optional course philosphy. One student said, after the first chapter: 'This is a nice story, teach.'" — Sep 24, 2026 07:06AM
"Reading this again, this time with teenagers in high school (15 - 16 year olds) for the optional course philosphy. One student said, after the first chapter: 'This is a nice story, teach.'" — Sep 24, 2026 07:06AM
“If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.”
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“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
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“The hypothesis of God, for instance, gives an incomparably absolute opportunity to understand everything and know absolutely nothing. Give man an extremely simplified system of the world and explain every phenomenon away on the basis of that system. An approach like that doesn't require any knowledge. Just a few memorized formulas plus so-called intuition and so-called common sense.”
― Roadside Picnic
― Roadside Picnic
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