Apology

Dialogues about knowledge, justice and the examined life. Begin by separating a speaker’s position from the dialogue’s larger argument.

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How to study this source

• What does it mean to examine a life?

  coreIntroduction or preface and opening chapter. Record the edition and translator before reading.

  Dialogues about knowledge, justice and the examined life. Begin by separating a speaker’s position from the dialogue’s larger argument.

Ideas and questions

Read background definitions when a term blocks the argument. Then return to the source and reconstruct its claim in your own words.

Read alongside, read against