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Lysis
de Plato
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Librería
-
Westbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
Fulcrum Press, 1930 London. First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/No Jacket. First Edition thus. No. 240 of 750 Plato, Lysis, A Dialogue, translated by K. A. Matthews, illustrated with woodcut engravings by Lynton Lamb, copy number 240 of 750, black cloth binding, lower cover slightly soiled, gilt title on spine, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 4to, Fulcrum Press, 1930
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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Detalles
- Librería
- finecopy ltd
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 110676
- Título
- Lysis
- Autor
- Plato
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardback
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Edición
- First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Fulcrum Press, 1930 London
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
