The apology of Socrates; Portugal's public finances.(Austerity comes to Portugal) The Economist (US) (10/23/2010)
...The more measured approach of Jose Socrates, Portugal's prime minister, involved...euro-era record in September. Now Mr Socrates has been forced to accept his mistake...package at least as tough as Spain's. Mr Socrates's measures, now before parliament...

The historical Socrates: the popular image of Socrates as a man of immense moral integrity was largely the creation of his pupil Plato. If we examine evidence of his trial, argues Robin Waterfield, a different picture emerges, of a cunning politician opposed to Athenian democracy. History Today (1/1/2009)
...In the course of his Apology of Socrates, Plato tells a curious...according to Plato, Socrates delivered at his trial...s mission, and his Socrates was the mouthpiece for...summarised in Plato's Apology in the oracle story...

WHAT SIDE IS SOCRATES ON IN EVOLUTION DEBATE?(PERSPECTIVE) Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) (5/31/1998)
...the intellectual and spiritual humility of good old Socrates. At the ripe age of 70, and condemned to die, Socrates is giving a defense of his life in Plato's ``Apology.'' Socrates says, referring to another person: ``I am wiser...

Socrates unbound: the cheeky philosopher has his say again--in corporate training sessions and ancient ruins.(CURRENTS) American Theatre (4/1/2007)
...reading of Plato's The Apology of Socrates, a re-creation of the speech Socrates delivered in his own defense...live differently, and Socrates has taught me invaluable lessons on that front." The Apology marks Simonides's return...

Phronesis: Vol. 51, No. 4, December 2006.(PHILOSOPHICAL ABSTRACTS)(Aristotle's theory of generated substance and metaphysics)(Aristotle's thesis in Physics)(Socrates and Axiochus) The Review of Metaphysics (3/1/2007)
...were presentists about the past. Socrates' Therapeutic Use of Inconstancy...their consistency. Whereas in the Apology Socrates argues that death is either annihilation...blessing either way, in the Axiochus Socrates seems to assert that death is both...

Socrates' Discursive Democracy. Logos and Ergon in Platonic Political Philosophy. American Political Science Review (12/1/1997)
...Viewed in this context, the Socrates that emerges from Mara's deft...Republic nor the ironist of the Apology. Mara's Socrates is multivalent, less easily...relationship to the Athenian democracy. Socrates is indeed critical of Athens...

Was Socrates a democrat? Melissa Lane looks at the reputation of Socrates, both at the time of his death and in subsequent debates about democracy. History Today (1/1/2002)
...democratic Athens, Socrates (469-399 BC) attracted...worth living' (Plato, Apology 38a); his ugly face...disciples. But the life of Socrates might never have become...speech'. Plato's Apology describes the charges...defence speeches given by ...

Socrates: mentor for humanists. (Great Minds). Free Inquiry (3/22/2003)
...Journalist I. F. Stone rewrote Socrates' Apology to strengthen its theme of freedom...Moseley created the character of Socrates Fortlow, a Black "gadfly" who...as he is with his questions. Socrates' humanism can help us to live...

The Trial of Socrates. The Economist (US) (3/5/1988)
...The surviving accounts of Socrates's teaching and trial come...jaundiced of them, Plato. "The Apology" is not a record of what Socrates said at the trial. It is what...counts in the indictment: "Socrates is guilty of not believing...