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Plato's "Apology"


  • Brickhouse, Thomas C., and Smith, Nicholas D., "'The Divine Sign Did Not Oppose Me': A Problem in Plato's Apology", in The Canadian Journal of Philosophy 16, 1986, pp. 511-526.
  • Burnyeat, M.F., "Review of The Trial of Socrates, by I.F. Stone" in New York Review of Books 35, 1988, pp. 12-18.
  • Coulter, J.A., "The Relation of the Apology of Socrates to Gorgias' Defense of Palamedes and Plato's Crituque of Gorgianic Rhetoric", in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 1964, pp. 269-303.
  • Dover, K.J., "Socrates in the Clouds", in The Philosophy of Socrates, (G. Vlastos, ed.), Garden City, N.Y., Anchor Books, 1971, pp. 50-77.
  • Frey, R. G., "Did Socrates Commit Suicide?", in Philosophy, 53, 1978, pp. 106-108.
  • Irwin, Terence, "Coercion and Objectivity in Plato's Dialectic", in Revue Internationale de Philosophie 40, (1986), pp. 49-74.
  • Irwin, Terence, "Socratic Inquiry and Politics", in Ethics 96, (1986), pp. 400-415.
  • Irwin, Terence, "Socrates and Athenian Democracy", in Philosophy and Public Affairs 18 (1989), pp. 184-205.
  • Kraut, R., "Plato's Apology and Crito : Two Recent Studies", in Ethics, 91, (1981), pp. 651-664.
  • Lacey, A.R., "Our Knowledge of Socrates", in The Philosophy of Socrates, (G. Vlastos, ed.), Garden City, N.Y., Anchor Books, 1971, pp. 22-49.
  • Lesher, J.H., "Socrates' Disavowal of Knowledge", in Journal of the History of Philosophy 25, (1987), pp.275-288.
  • McPherran, M.L. "Socrates and the Duty to Philosophize", in The Southern Journal of Philosophy 24, (1985), pp. 283-309.
  • Nussbaum, M.C., "Aristophanes and Socrates on Learning Practical Wisdom", in Yale Classical Studies 26, (1980), pp. 43-97.
  • Vlastos, G., "The Historical Socrates and Athenian Democracy", in Political Theory 11, 1983, pp. 495-516.
  • Vlastos, G., "The Socratic Elenchus", in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 1, (1983), pp. 27-58.
  • Vlastos, G., "Socrates' Disavowal of Knowledge", in Philosophical Quarterly 35, (1985), pp. 1-31.

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