Socrates in Love: The Making of a Philosopher by Armand D’Angour

Socrates in Love: The Making of a Philosopher by Armand D’AngourAn innovative and insightful exploration of the passionate early life of Socrates and the influences that led him to become the first and greatest of philosophersSocrates: the philosopher whose questioning gave birth to the ideas of Western thought, and whose execution marked the end of the Athenian Golden Age. Yet despite his pre eminence among the great thinkers of history, little of his life story is known. What we know tends to begin in his middle

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