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Socrates: A Very Short Introduction Condition:Very Good Lonely Planet WriterIn this book, Christopher Taylor explores the relationship between the historical Socrates and the engaging and infuriating figure who appears in Plato's dialogues, and examines the enduring image of Socrates as the ideal exemplar of the philosophic life a thinker whose moral and intellectualintegrity permeated every detail of his life, even in the face of betrayal and execution by his fellow Athenians. About the Series: Combining authority with wit,