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The Portable Plato: Protagoras, Symposium, Phaedo, and the Republic

Door Plato e.a.

Categorie	Filosofie
Boeknummer	#278850
Titel	The Portable Plato: Protagoras, Symposium, Phaedo, and the Republic
Auteur	Plato & Scott Buchanan (edited by)
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	London, Penguin
Jaar van uitgave	1982
ISBN10	0140150404
ISBN13	9780140150407
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Complete, in the English Translation of Benjamin Jowett
Samenvatting	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,... (Lees verder) 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 allows us to see Plato both as a commentator on his society and as a shaper of the societies that followed, who bequeathed to us a hunger for the ideal as well as a redeeming habit of humane skepticism.
Pagina's	696
Conditie	Goed — 1982 edition with blue/brown cover.
Prijs	€ 8,00

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