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The Last Days of Socrates
de Plato; Translated by Hugh Tredennick and Harold Tarrant. Introduction by Harold Tarrant
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Scarce virgin copy in publisher's original shrink wrap. Black leather boards with tasteful Greek key gilt cartouche to boards; title & author to boards and spine. Moire endpapers and silk ribbon; four raised bands.
6.75 x 9.5 in
6.75 x 9.5 in
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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- Librería
- William Chrisant & Sons' Florida Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, FABA
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 7623
- Título
- The Last Days of Socrates
- Autor
- Plato; Translated by Hugh Tredennick and Harold Tarrant. Introduction by Harold Tarrant
- Ilustrador
- Richard Sparks
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo As New
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Collector's Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Easton Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Norwalk, Connecticut
- Fecha de publicación
- 2000
- Páginas
- 237
- Tamaño
- 8vo
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Classical Literature;
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William Chrisant & Sons' Florida Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, FABA
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William Chrisant & Sons' Florida Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, FABA
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Sobre William Chrisant & Sons' Florida Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, FABA
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