Five Great Dialogues (Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, Republic)
de Plato (Benjamin Jowett, tr.)
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Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1942. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. viii, 511 pp. Underlining on c. 20 pages. The covers are slightly scuffed at the edges. The binding is tight and square.
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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- Persephone's Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 071957
- Título
- Five Great Dialogues (Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, Republic)
- Autor
- Plato (Benjamin Jowett, tr.)
- Formato/Encuadernación
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- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- D. Van Nostrand Co.
- Lugar de publicación
- Princeton, NJ
- Fecha de publicación
- 1942
- Páginas
- 511
- Tamaño
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Palabras clave
- Philosophy General
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