The opening works on our Great Books of the Western World reading list are the Apology and Crito, two of the works covering the trial and death of Socrates.
We're immediately confronted with some of the most important questions of life, what do we believe? what would we die for? who should we listen to?
0:00 Introduction
1:24 Our Main Characters
3:08 The Trial of Socrates
5:23 The Man Who Knew He Knew Nothing
8:08 Who should you listen to?
10:40 What are you willing to die for?
14:57 Will you think of the children?!
16:40 Closing thoughts
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Links from the Video
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Free eBook of all the Dialogues: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/plato/dialogues/benjamin-jowett
Apology: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1656/1656-h/1656-h.htm
Crito: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1657/pg1657-images.html
Great Books of the Western World: https://thinkingwest.com/encyclopedia-britannicas-great-books-of-the-western-world/
Substack: https://beyondabstinence.substack.com