Reddit reviews The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics)

Chin Up /u/Bit_By_Bit

• Your meticulous analysis and smart comments were appreciated by most regular readers of this thread. Please keep them up when you feel ready to come back to it.
  
  
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• My condolences to your family. I have found Socrates' philosophical defense of the immortality of the soul to be very comforting reading when I have lost loved ones. Free full text here
  
  
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• "Rule #1: Be Excellent to Each Other"
  

>Admittedly, analytical philosophy is the only type that has any real significance in the world of academia.

This has been a waning truth since 2001.

>The fairly traditional introductory text is "The Republic" by Plato. A massively influential work, and it is easy to read, not difficult to follow, and not bogged down by jargon like most modern philosophy. However, you might find it fairly boring.

Try The Last Days of Socrates.

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
https://www.amazon.com/dp/080701429X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_JQnkDbPF9HNJ9

The Last Days of Socrates by Plato
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0140449280/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_CRnkDb8FCT0YF