The Death of Socrates Guardini and unless he behaves like

and unless he behaves like a coward or a fool

wrote: “The signs of the times have indicated…with all the spontaneity of a genuine symptom

choosing instead to present Augustine’s “personality and thought in the everlasting form of his writings as a perennial possibility of Christian existence

in the words of editor Jeremy Beer

The Death of Socrates Guardini and unless he behaves likeBy Romano Guardini The Death of Socrates is a richly insightful interpretation of the four Platonic dialogues that place Socrates in direct confrontation with human mortality. The Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo each present an element of the Socratic vision of death, of the appearance of life in the face of death, and how death ultimately is to be met. Poised and precise, The Death of Socrates is an excellent resource for new pupils and