A review by sharpenanother
The Last Days of Socrates by Plato

4.0

I wanted to read this after reading about how Ben Franklin admired Socrates and used his questioning methods with success. These four dialogues were very readable. I'm very glad everything came out in conversations instead of being set down in blocks of prose. Difficult questions were broken down into multiple, simpler questions that helped provide answers. Justice and death were major themes. Socrates maintains that he's only wise because he knows that he knows nothing. He trips up other people who act like they know something by asking careful questions that lead them into contradicting what they previously asserted. Socrates usually got pretty sarcastic at that point, which was funny.