New York: Dover Publications, 1992 What is the charge Well, a very serious charge, which shows a good deal of character in the young man, and for which he is certainly not to be despised.
Socrates was put on trial in 399 BC for allegedly corrupting. The four dialogues are presented here in the authoritative translation by the distinguished classical scholar Benjamin Jowett, renowned for his translations of Plato. The following sample essay on Benjamin Jowett. The trial and death of Socrates are some of the most tragic chapters in philosophical history. In Euthyphro, Socrates explores the concepts and aims of piety and religion: in Apology, he courageously defends the integrity of his teachings in Crito, he demonstrates his respect for the law in his refusal to flee his death sentence and in Phaedo embraces death and discusses the immortality of the soul. None is more exciting and revelatory than the four dialogues - Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo - on themes evoked by the trial and death of Socrates, accused by his enemies and detractors of crimes against the state, among them "impiety" and "corruption of the young." In them Plato cast his teacher Socrates as the central disputant in colloquies that brilliantly probe a vast spectrum of philosophical ideas and issues. The Dialogues of Plato (427–347 B.C.) rank with the writings of Aristotle as the most important and influential philosophical works in Western thought.
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