Description:
Penguin Publishing Group, 1970. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Summary
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...
First line
This is a dialogue between Socrates and the "rhapsode" or reciter, Ion of Ephesus, who declares himself unequalled as a reciter and exponent of Homer.
Details
- Title Great Dialogues of Plato
- Author Plato
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 11th Printing
- Language GR
- Publisher Plume
- Date May 1, 1970
- ISBN 9780452253926
More Copies for Sale
Complete Texts of Great Dialogues of Plato
by Plat?
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780452253926 / 0452253926
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
- Item Price
-
$17.53FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Item Price
$17.53
FREE shipping to USA
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Great Dialogues of Plato
by Plato
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780452253926 / 0452253926
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Snowflake, Arizona, United States
- Item Price
-
$21.94$3.95 shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Plume, 1970-05-01. Paperback. Very Good. former library book with library markings, laminated cover, yellowed
Item Price
$21.94
$3.95
shipping to USA