It is 300BC, you are a Platonist. Your friend, also a student, has been condemned to death by the Athenian court. Write him a letter preparing him for his last hours.
Date Submitted: 10/25/2000 01:13:25
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 11 pages (2906 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 11 pages (2906 words)
My beloved Adeimantus,
I cannot but lament that I should lose you so soon and so unjustly. How often have I loved to gaze upon your bearded face and welcomed the opportunity to be privy to that beauty, to which all men aspire? How often have we enjoyed each others company and instructive conversation? All the more sorrowful, then, is the task to which I now apply myself.
Nicostratus has truly wronged every Athenian, not …
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…successful, yet less Platonic arguments.
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