The New Adventures of Socrates
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Plato's dialogues, updated for the age of social media and short attention spans. Socrates hangs out with his old gang - Plato, Glaucon, Thrasymachus and the rest - but also meets new characters including Madonna, George W. Bush, Richard Dawkins, Hamlet and an extremely well-meaning robot.
Don't count on it teaching you any philosophy, but it might make you laugh if you have a sufficiently warped sense of humor.
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How this book got written . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii
I Beauty 1
Socrates Potter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
The Importance of Being Socrates . . . . . . . . . . 6
The Trial of Socrates and Rolf Harris . . . . . . . . 11
When Harry Met Socrates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Oprah's Symposium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
II Truth 23
Have You Heard The One About Socrates? . . . . . 25
Chitty Chitty Socrates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Sophie's Socrates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Timaeus's TED talk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Swords and Sorcery and Socrates . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Flashback, Socrates! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and Socrates . . . . . 57
III Virtue 65
George W. Socrates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
The Three Laws of Socrates (part 1) . . . . . . . . . 74
The Three Laws of Socrates (part 2) . . . . . . . . . 77
The Three Laws of Socrates (part 3) . . . . . . . . . 81
The Online Socrates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
One Socrates to Rule Them All . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Socrates Inside Out (part 1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Socrates Inside Out (part 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Socrates Python . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Socrates and the Chocolate Factory . . . . . . . . . 114
Stitch and Bitch, Socrates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Apology of Charlie Hebdo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Goodnight Socrates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Is There a Socrates in the House? . . . . . . . . . . . 141 I
V Epilogue 145
On the Proper Interpretation of this Book . . . . . . 147
