The Dialogues of Plato
Author : Plato
Publisher :
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 16,86 MB
Release : 1871
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Selected Dialogues of Plato
Author : Plato
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,88 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.
The Dialogues of Plato
Author : Plato
Publisher :
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 34,49 MB
Release : 1871
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Early Socratic Dialogues
Author : Emlyn-Jones Chris
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 757 pages
File Size : 34,87 MB
Release : 2005-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0141914076
Book Description
Rich in drama and humour, they include the controversial Ion, a debate on poetic inspiration; Laches, in which Socrates seeks to define bravery; and Euthydemus, which considers the relationship between philosophy and politics. Together, these dialogues provide a definitive portrait of the real Socrates and raise issues still keenly debated by philosophers, forming an incisive overview of Plato's philosophy.
Socrates and Philosophy in the Dialogues of Plato
Author : Sandra Peterson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 33,16 MB
Release : 2011-03-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139497979
Book Description
In Plato's Apology, Socrates says he spent his life examining and questioning people on how best to live, while avowing that he himself knows nothing important. Elsewhere, however, for example in Plato's Republic, Plato's Socrates presents radical and grandiose theses. In this book Sandra Peterson offers a hypothesis which explains the puzzle of Socrates' two contrasting manners. She argues that the apparently confident doctrinal Socrates is in fact conducting the first step of an examination: by eliciting his interlocutors' reactions, his apparently doctrinal lectures reveal what his interlocutors believe is the best way to live. She tests her hypothesis by close reading of passages in the Theaetetus, Republic and Phaedo. Her provocative conclusion, that there is a single Socrates whose conception and practice of philosophy remain the same throughout the dialogues, will be of interest to a wide range of readers in ancient philosophy and classics.
The Collected Dialogues of Plato
Author : Plato
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 1770 pages
File Size : 31,23 MB
Release : 1961-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1400835860
Book Description
All the writings of Plato generally considered to be authentic are here presented in the only complete one-volume Plato available in English. The editors set out to choose the contents of this collected edition from the work of the best British and American translators of the last 100 years, ranging from Jowett (1871) to scholars of the present day. The volume contains prefatory notes to each dialogue, by Edith Hamilton; an introductory essay on Plato's philosophy and writings, by Huntington Cairns; and a comprehensive index which seeks, by means of cross references, to assist the reader with the philosophical vocabulary of the different translators.
Reason & Persuasion
Author : John Holbo
Publisher :
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 15,64 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789810680619
Book Description
The Dialogues of Socrates
Author : Plato
Publisher : Sirius Entertainment
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,89 MB
Release : 2025-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781398851290
Book Description
This elegant collector's edition presents the classic philosophical work 'The Dialogues of Socrates' featuring gold cover embossing and gilded page-edges. Socrates' most dedicated student, Plato, offers a detailed and eye-opening account of the Socratic belief in one's own responsibility through Socrates' dialogue with his fellow Athenians. This collection includes six of Plato's dialogues focusing on the life of Socrates: Charmides, in which Socrates discusses the meaning of restraint; Symposium, depicting a contest of speeches and rhetoric over the subject of love; Euthyphro, in which Socrates and Euthyphro ponder the meaning of piety; Apology which includes Socrates' defence from his trial; Crito investigates the meaning of justice; Phaedo which recounts the day of Socrates death. All parts come together to create a moving read for newly curious philosophy students and experienced intellectuals alike. This beautiful pocket-sized gift edition contains these classic and unabridged tales, presented with a gold embossed cover design, ivory pages, beautifully designed endpapers and gold gilded page edges. Part of the Arcturus Ornate Classics series, this book makes wonderful gift for any philosophy lover.
Selections from the Dialogues of Plato
Author : Plato
Publisher :
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 14,94 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Book Description
The Republic
Author : By Plato
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 20,48 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.
