Lysis - the Symposium - Phaedrus Dialogues on Love and Friendship
de Plato
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- Estado
- Near Fine
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Sobre este artículo
Near Fine. 1968. Hardcover. Near Fine Hardcover in Fine Slipcase. Velum Spine, slight toning, otherwise Fine. LEC, limited Edition, one of 1500 numbered copies, signed by Illustrator. Includes Prospectus and Monthy Letter. Translated by Benjamin Jowett, preface by Whitney J. Oates. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 208 pages; Signed by Illustrator .
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
- Book Gallery // Mike Riley
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 107336
- Título
- Lysis - the Symposium - Phaedrus Dialogues on Love and Friendship
- Autor
- Plato
- Ilustrador
- Eugene Karlin
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Fecha de publicación
- 1968
- Palabras clave
- George Macy, L.E.C., Deluxe, Ltd Ed, CLASSIC, Philosophy, Vellum
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