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Dialogs of Plato: Volume 1

Dialogs of Plato: Volume 1 Hardcover - 1937

by Plato; Benjamin Jowett (Translator)


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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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HOW YOU, O Athenians, have been affected by my accusers, I cannot tell; but I know that they almost made me forget who I was-so persuasively did they speak; and yet they have hardly uttered a word of truth.

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  • Title Dialogs of Plato: Volume 1
  • Author Plato; Benjamin Jowett (Translator)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Third edition
  • Pages 543
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Random House (NY), Oxford
  • Date March 12, 1937
  • ISBN 9780394420042 / 0394420047
  • Weight 2.93 lbs (1.33 kg)
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