Contributors to this volume focus on the character of Socrates as the embodiment of philosophy, employing this as a starting point for exploring various themes exposed in the Apology. These include the relation of philosophy to democracy, rhetoric, politics, or society in general, and the overarching question of what comprises the philosophic life.

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• A Shameless Socrates on Trial in Democratic Athens
• Philosophy, Democracy, and Poverty
• The Temporality of Philosophy in the
• Plato’s Socrates in the
• Socrates’s Daimonic Ethics
• Socrates’s Telling of the Truth
• The Character of Socrates in Plato’s
• Socrates’s Failure
• Self-Images of Socrates
• Socrates’s Mission
• The Philosophical Force of Negativity
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Contributors