“I expect this book to stir controversy of the best sort: the kind that acknowledges a challenge worth responding to. This is an eye-opening, indeed quite startling reinterpretation of Socratic claims that have for some decades been the prize exhibits for the standard view of Socrates. Reading along, I often felt like cheering.”

G. R. F. Ferrari, University of California, Berkeley

"Weiss’ careful consideration of many key texts is interesting and surely advances a particular interpretive approach to Socratic philosophy. . . . Weiss’ handling of the individual arguments is careful and informative. Her discussions offer the reader a number of nuanced interpretations that engage with contemporary scholarship."

Joel A. Martinez | Polis

“Regardless of whether one agrees or disagrees with Weiss, it would be hard not to admire her extraordinarily penetrating analysis of the many overlapping and interweaving arguments running through the dialogues.”

Daniel B. Gallagher | Classical Outlook

“Many scholars of Socratic philosophy . . . will wish they had written Weiss’s book, or at least will wish that they had long ago read it.”

Douglas V. Henry | Review of Politics

"This is an important book. . . . A saner Platonic Socrates emerges along with improved coherence across Plato’s dialogues. Weiss builds her case in careful detail . . . and [is] a pleasure to read as well."

Maureen Eckert | Journal of the History of Philosophy

"[Weiss’s] Socrates is . . . a philosopher for all seasons, a powerful champion of humble decency and honest intellectual effort. . . . This is a Socrates well worth cheering for, and Weiss deserves our heartfelt thanks for presenting him in such a lively and convincing way."

Jacob Howland | Scripta Classica Israelica

"The strength of the book lies in its series of close readings of important stretches of Platonic texts and in provoking critical reflection on what might indeed have become simply received wisdom. . . . A provocative book which deserves serious study."

James Warren | Phoenix