Socrates' Stoic Apology: Father of Philosophy, Stoicism, & Science! Son of Homer, Achilles, & Odysseus! Mentor to Plato, Aristotle, Zeno, Epictetus, Seneca, Aurelius, Cato, Galileo, Bruno, & Nietzsche Audiolibro Por Dr. Elliot McGucken arte de portada

Socrates' Stoic Apology: Father of Philosophy, Stoicism, & Science! Son of Homer, Achilles, & Odysseus! Mentor to Plato, Aristotle, Zeno, Epictetus, Seneca, Aurelius, Cato, Galileo, Bruno, & Nietzsche

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Socrates' Stoic Apology: Father of Philosophy, Stoicism, & Science! Son of Homer, Achilles, & Odysseus! Mentor to Plato, Aristotle, Zeno, Epictetus, Seneca, Aurelius, Cato, Galileo, Bruno, & Nietzsche

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 "I had never known that Socrates' Apology was so concise and Philosophy so beautiful. Thanks Dr. E!" --Greg T., Princeton University For the past ten years or so I have been voyaging through the West shooting epic landscape photography (mcgucken.com) while traveling with my best friends--Homer, Socrates, Epictetus, Virgil, Einstein, the Tao, et al. This book is devoted to my good friend Socrates. I’ll never forget the day I was introduced to Socrates. It was a grey, cloudy autumn day in Princeton—one of those first days of fall when one needs a jacket. I was sitting alone in the bleachers just beyond the tennis courts, as I was an hour early for tennis practice. Truth be told, I hadn’t really been enjoying my philosophy class "Plato and his Predecessors." The professor, who shaved his head, seemed a bit, well, professorial. But my feelings about philosophy were about to change. I was about to fall in love. I opened the text Plato’s Dialogues and devoured the entire Apology in an hour. It blew me away, and thus I learned that philosophy was better exalted in books than the lecture hall. Ever since then, I have always sought the original texts in poetry, philosophy, literature, and physics. Right as I finished the Apology, the skies opened up and thunder and lightning canceled tennis practice for the day. I ran on back to my dorm with a renewed passion for pursuing virtue in art, physics, and philosophy. Bertrand Russell: Socrates was the chief saint of the Stoics throughout their history; his attitude at the time of his trial, his refusal to escape, his calmness in the face of death, and his contention that the perpetrator of injustice injures himself more than his victim, all fitted in perfectly with Stoic teaching. So did his indifference to heat and cold, his plainness in matters of food and dress, and his complete independence of all bodily comforts. Bertrand Russell, in A History of Western Philosophy (1945), Book One, Part III, Chapter XXVIII, Stoicism, p. 253 Ever since that introduction to The Apology, I have always seen the Stoics, physicists, and philosophers who came after Socrates to be students of Socrates. And thus Socrates became my spiritual guide and mentor, as he taught me to imitate Achilles in considering not death nor danger, but only acting with virtue while courageously speaking the Truth, come hell or high water. The esteemed Alfred North Whitehead noted, "The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. I do not mean the systematic scheme of thought which scholars have doubtfully extracted from his writings. I allude to the wealth of general ideas scattered through them. His personal endowments, his wide opportunities for experience at a great period of civilization, his inheritance of an intellectual tradition not yet stiffened by excessive systematization, have made his writing an inexhaustible mine of suggestion." --Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, p. 39 [Free Press, 1979] And so it is that this book exalts in celebrating Socrates' primal text--the Apology. I have been saddened to see the popular marketing stoics (mkstoics) ignoring, discounting, and belittling Socrates. But such is the way of the world, and Socrates knew it, as he stated that he would gladly die many times over rather than ever cease teaching his Truth. Socrates calmly looked rejection and death in the face and stated, “. . .either acquit me or not; but whatever you do, know that I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.” And yet, the marketing stoics (mkstoics) ignore this wonderful teaching that virtue does not come from money, as they exalt their sordid bottom line and machinations above Socrates’ higher soul. Socrates compared himself with Achilles—the primal Greek hero---as he made philosophy a heroic act, thusly exalting science and Western Civilization too. Join us!
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