the sequencing of this book was an odd choice: putting the apology right after crito, then tacking on the symposium right at the end seems to me a very weird editorial course of action.

still, such matters aside, the wisdom embedded in plato’s works remain, as always, quite timeless and perennial. there are very many things talked about here, from justice to death and life to love itself.

there is no end of socrates’ questioning. faced between a choice of a life with no questions or death for his questioning, he intentionally and wilfully chooses death. yet even after death, his ghost haunts us through these pages and through our shared consciousness of the history of the earth. the unexamined life is not worth living, socrates says and we have parroted those words through two millennia.

god willing, we will be parroting them for two millennia more.