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This is a collection of curious articles for students who have taken POS 101 - and would like to keep reading and thinking about some of the issues we discussed (plus some we missed).
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Saturday, September 24, 2016
In
this essay, Stanford classicist and poli sci professor Josiah Ober tries to
explain why Socrates chose to accept the verdict of the Athenian jury – and commit
suicide. Ober introduces several different interpretations, and challenges the
conventional view doubting the legitimacy of the whole trial.
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