Najmądrzejszy. Biografia Sokratesa

A conversation with Socrates was said to leave people changed; Plato called him a physician of souls. If we value dialogue over violence, and questions over answers, much of that goes back to him. His life is bound up with the history of ancient Athens, so his biography is also the city's: the place where European ideas of politics, art and education were born, but also of populism, social division and bloody wars. It was the Athenians who condemned him to death. The book asks what Socrates really added to philosophy, why he stirred such strong feelings, and why he was sentenced, weaving love, politics and war into the story.

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About the book

Form

Nonfiction

Length

527 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Greece

First published

2025 by Agora

ISBN

9788383801810 (original)