Great Dialogues of Plato Mass market paperbound - 1999

Writing in the fourth century B.C., in an Athens that had suffered a humiliating defeat in the Peloponnesian War, Plato formulated questions that have haunted the moral, religious, and political imagination of the West for more than 2,000 years: what is virtue? How should we love? What constitutes a good society? Is there a soul that outlasts the body and a truth that transcends appearance? What do we know and how do we know it? Plato's inquiries were all the more resonant because he couched them in the form of dramatic and often highly comic dialogues, whose principal personage was the ironic, teasing, and relentlessly searching philosopher Socrates.In this splendid collection, Scott Buchanan brings together the most important of Plato's dialogues, including Protagoras, The Symposium, with its barbed conjectures about the relation between love and madness, Phaedo and The Republic, his monumental work of political philosophy. Buchanan's learned and engaging introduction...

Detalles

• Título Great Dialogues of Plato
• Autor Plato; W. H. Rouse (Translator)
• Encuadernación Mass Market Paperbound
• Edición [ Edition: Repri
• Páginas 13
• Volúmenes 1
• Idioma ENG
• Editorial Signet Classics, New York
• Fecha de publicación October 1, 1999
• ISBN 9780451527455 / 0451527453
• Peso 0.52 libras (0.24 kg)
• Dimensiones 6.89 x 4.19 x 0.93 pulgadas (17.50 x 10.64 x 2.36 cm)
• Library of Congress subjects Philosophy, Ancient
• Dewey Decimal Code 184