Author : Plato
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 31,71 MB
Release : 2007-05-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0486454657
Presents authoritative translations of six of Plato's dialogues.
Author : Leo Rauch
Publisher : Arco
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,1 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780671005054
A guide to reading "The Republic" with a critical and appreciative mind. Includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list.
Author : Frisbee Candida Cheyenne Sheffield
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,87 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0199567816
Frisbee Sheffield argues that the Symposium has been unduly marginalized by philosophers. Although the topic - eros - and the setting at a symposium have seemed anomalous, she demonstrates that both are intimately related to Plato's preoccupation with the nature of the good life, with virtue, and how it is acquired and transmitted. For Plato, analysing our desires is a way of reflecting on the kind of people we will turn out to be and on our chances of leading a worthwhile and happy life. In its focus on the question why he considered desires to be amenable to this type of reflection, this book explores Plato's ethics of desire.
Author : Plato
Publisher :
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 15,41 MB
Release : 2020-01-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781658119108
Plato (428/427-348/347 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and mathematician of the Classic Age who founded the Academy of Athens. Noted as a student of Socrates, Plato has distinguished himself as one of the founders...
Author : Plato
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 31,48 MB
Release : 2012-09-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1603849165
A Plato Reader offers eight of Plato's best-known works--Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo, Symposium, Phaedrus, and Republic--unabridged, expertly introduced and annotated, and in widely admired translations by C. D. C. Reeve, G. M. A. Grube, Alexander Nehamas, and Paul Woodruff. The collection features Socrates as its central character and a model of the examined life. Its range allows us to see him in action in very different settings and philosophical modes: from the elenctic Socrates of the Meno and the dialogues concerning his trial and death, to the erotic Socrates of the Symposium and Phaedrus, to the dialectician of the Republic. Of Reeve's translation of this final masterpiece, Lloyd P. Gerson writes, "Taking full advantage of S. R. Slings' new Greek text of the Republic, Reeve has given us a translation both accurate and limpid. Loving attention to detail and deep familiarity with Plato's thought are evident on every page. Reeve's brilliant decision to cast the dialogue into direct speech produces a compelling impression of immediacy unmatched by other English translations currently available."
Author : Thomas A. Szlezák
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 10,61 MB
Release : 2005-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1134656491
Reading Plato offers a concise and illuminating insight into the complexities and difficulties of the Platonic dialogues, providing an invaluable text for any student of Plato's philosophy. Taking as a starting point the critique of writing in the Phaedrus -- where Socrates argues that a book cannot choose its reader nor can it defend itself against misinterpretation -- Reading Plato offers solutions to the problems of interpreting the dialogues. In this ground-breaking book, Thomas A. Szlezak persuasively argues that the dialogues are designed to stimulate philosophical enquiry and to elevate philosophy to the realm of oral dialectic.
Author : Mary P. Nichols
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 35,68 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0521899737
In Socrates on Friendship and Community, Mary P. Nichols addresses Kierkegaard's and Nietzsche's criticism of Socrates and recovers the place of friendship and community in Socratic philosophizing. This approach stands in contrast to the modern philosophical tradition, in which Plato's Socrates has been viewed as an alienating influence on Western thought and life. Nichols' rich analysis of both dramatic details and philosophic themes in Plato's Symposium, Phaedras, and Lysis shows how love finds its fulfilment in the reciprocal relation of friends. Nichols also shows how friends experience another as their own and themselves as belonging to another. Their experience, she argues, both sheds light on the nature of philosophy and serves as a standard for a political life that does justice to human freedom and community.
Author : Plato
Publisher :
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 48,38 MB
Release : 2020-12
Category :
ISBN :
The Phaedrus, written by Plato, is a dialogue between Plato's protagonist, Socrates, and Phaedrus, an interlocutor in several dialogues. The Phaedrus was presumably composed around 370 BC, about the same time as Plato's Republic and Symposium.
Author : Plato
Publisher :
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 10,13 MB
Release : 1848
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 19,70 MB
Release : 1987-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1609253949
This anthology, the largest collection of Pythagorean writings ever to appear in English, contains the four ancient biographies of Pythagoras and over 25 Pythagorean and Neopythagorean writings from the Classical and Hellenistic periods. The material of this book is indispensable for anyone who wishes to understand the real spiritual roots of Western civilization.
