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Dialogues of Plato: Apology : Crito : Phaedo : Symposium : Republic
de PLATO
- Usado
- good
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0671442406
- ISBN 13
- 9780671442408
- Librería
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Newport, Washington, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Pocket Books, 1951. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Paperback Book in Good Condition. The Jowett Translations, edited and with Introductory Notes by Justin D. Kaplan. The complete texts of the Apology, Crito, Phaedo and Symposium, and extensive selections from the Repblic. Plato examines our virtues and vices, our problems and questions, and shows how mankind can understand his place in the world and live an intelligent, happy life. The cover to the book is clean and unmarked, light wear to extremities, light spine creasing; Pages moderate to heavily toned, a few underlined sentences. 386 pages. 4.2 x 7 inches. 1951, Washington Square Press/Pocket Books, New York.
Sinopsis
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...
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- Inventario del vendedor #
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- Título
- Dialogues of Plato: Apology : Crito : Phaedo : Symposium : Republic
- Autor
- PLATO
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0671442406
- ISBN 13
- 9780671442408
- Editorial
- Pocket Books
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1951
- Tamaño
- 12mo - over 6?" - 7?"
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- PHILOSOPHY VIRTUES VICES
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- 0 oz
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