Selections
Author : Plato
Publisher :
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 31,29 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780684143217
The Republic
Author : By Plato
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 45,55 MB
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3736801467
Book Description
The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BCE, concerning the definition of justice, the order and character of the just city-state and the just man. The dramatic date of the dialogue has been much debated and though it must take place some time during the Peloponnesian War, "there would be jarring anachronisms if any of the candidate specific dates between 432 and 404 were assigned". It is Plato's best-known work and has proven to be one of the most intellectually and historically influential works of philosophy and political theory. In it, Socrates along with various Athenians and foreigners discuss the meaning of justice and examine whether or not the just man is happier than the unjust man by considering a series of different cities coming into existence "in speech", culminating in a city (Kallipolis) ruled by philosopher-kings; and by examining the nature of existing regimes. The participants also discuss the theory of forms, the immortality of the soul, and the roles of the philosopher and of poetry in society.
Plato on Love
Author : Plato
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 22,94 MB
Release : 2006-06-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1603840591
Book Description
This collection features Plato's writings on sex and love in the preeminent translations of Stanley Lombardo, Paul Woodruff and Alexander Nehamas, D. S. Hutchinson, and C. D. C. Reeve. Reeve's Introduction provides a wealth of historical information about Plato and Socrates, and the sexual norms of classical Athens. His introductory essay looks closely at the dialogues themselves and includes the following sections: Socrates and the Art of Love; Socrates and Athenian Paiderastia; Loving Socrates; Love and the Ascent to the Beautiful; The Art and Psychology of Love Explained; and Writing about Love.
Selections from Plato
Author : Plato
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 34,62 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780806137766
Book Description
This classic text, which contains the complete Greek text of the Apology and of Crito with other selections, offers an introduction to Plato’s language as well as an introduction to Socrates as presented by Plato. These two goals determined Lewis Leaming Forman’s ample selection of passages from the writings of Plato. Forman’s detailed and helpful notes enhance appreciation of how Greek prose—particularly Plato’s—produces its effects. They include helpful discussions of syntax, the uses of particles, the effects of word order, and rhetorical devices. Forman also includes an appendix with an additional set of notes containing information chiefly on various syntactic patterns in the Greek language. Particularly suitable for second-, third-, or fourth-year students of Greek, this volume is also a useful resource for the Platonic scholar.
Plato on Poetry
Author : Plato
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 37,26 MB
Release : 1996-03-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521349819
Book Description
Prior to publication of this 1996 book, much had been written on Plato as a critic of literature, but no commentaries had appeared in English on the Ion, or the opening books of the Republic in which Plato launches his famous attack on poetry, since the early years of this century. This volume brings together these texts and the relevant section of Republic 10. It aims to provide the reader with a commentary which takes account of modern scholarship on the subject, and which explores the ambivalence of Plato's pronouncements on poetry through an analysis of his own skill as a writer. A general introduction sets Plato's views in the wider context of attitudes to poetry in Greek society before his time, and indicates the main ways in which his writings on poetry have influenced the history of aesthetic thought in European culture.
Plato's 'Republic'
Author : Mark L. McPherran
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,26 MB
Release : 2010-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0521491908
Book Description
The essays in this volume provide a picture of the most interesting, puzzling, and provoking aspects of Plato's Republic.
Eryxias
Author : Plato
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 25,69 MB
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Book Description
Eryxias by Plato is a spurious Socratic dialogue. It is set in the Stoa of Zeus Eleutherios, and features Socrates in conversation with Critias, Eryxias, and Erasistratus (nephew of Phaeax). The dialogue concerns the topic of wealth and virtue. The position of Eryxias that it is good to be materially prosperous is challenged when Critias argues that having money is not always a good thing. Socrates then shows that money has only a conventional value.
Plato at the Googleplex
Author : Rebecca Goldstein
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 17,44 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0307378195
Book Description
Acclaimed philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein provides a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama of philosophy, revealing its hidden role in today's debates on religion, morality, politics, and science.
Selected Dialogues of Plato
Author : Plato
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,98 MB
Release : 2009-10-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0307423611
Book Description
Benjamin Jowett's translations of Plato have long been classics in their own right. In this volume, Professor Hayden Pelliccia has revised Jowett's renderings of five key dialogues, giving us a modern Plato faithful to both Jowett's best features and Plato's own masterly style. Gathered here are many of Plato's liveliest and richest texts. Ion takes up the question of poetry and introduces the Socratic method. Protagoras discusses poetic interpretation and shows why cross-examination is the best way to get at the truth. Phaedrus takes on the nature of rhetoric, psychology, and love, as does the famous Symposium. Finally, Apology gives us Socrates' art of persuasion put to the ultimate test--defending his own life. Pelliccia's new Introduction to this volume clarifies its contents and addresses the challenges of translating Plato freshly and accurately. In its combination of accessibility and depth, Selected Dialogues of Plato is the ideal introduction to one of the key thinkers of all time.
Laws
Author : Plato
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 25,49 MB
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Book Description
The Laws is Plato's last, longest, and perhaps, most famous work. It presents a conversation on political philosophy between three elderly men: an unnamed Athenian, a Spartan named Megillus, and a Cretan named Clinias. They worked to create a constitution for Magnesia, a new Cretan colony that would make all of its citizens happy and virtuous. In this work, Plato combines political philosophy with applied legislation, going into great detail concerning what laws and procedures should be in the state. For example, they consider whether drunkenness should be allowed in the city, how citizens should hunt, and how to punish suicide. The principles of this book have entered the legislation of many modern countries and provoke a great interest of philosophers even in the 21st century.
