What exactly is knowledge?The Theaetetus is a seminal text in the philosophy of knowledge, and is acknowledged as one of Platos finest works. Cast as a conversation between Socrates and a clever but modest student...Loe edasi...
Phaedrus is widely recognized as one of Platos most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus and its ostensible subject is love, especially homoerotic love. Socrates reveals it to be a ki...Loe edasi...
A unique selection of four dialogues in which Plato considers virtue-- individual virtue as well as virtue as a whole-- and its definition. Charmides, Laches, and Lysis investigate the specific virtues of self-control, courage, and...Loe edasi...
In the fifth century BC professional educators, the sophists, travelled the Greek world claiming to teach success in public and private life. In this dialogue Plato shows the pretensions of the leading sophist, Protagoras, challenged by the critical...Loe edasi...
Once upon a time there were just the gods; mortal beings did not yet exist.We are used to thinking of myths containing lines like this simply as stories, and modern myths as made up and fictitious. For the ancient Greeks, however, a myth wa...Loe edasi...
The Phaedo is acknowledged to be one of Platos masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and as a dramatist at the height of his powers. For its moving account of the execution of Socrates, the Phaedo ranks among the supreme literary achieveme...Loe edasi...
Timaeus, one of Platos acknowledged masterpieces, is an attempt to construct the universe and explain its contents by means of as few axioms as possible. The result is a brilliant, bizarre, and surreal cosmos - the product of the rational thinking o...Loe edasi...
In his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC. The guests--including the comic poet Aristophanes and Platos mentor Socrates--each deliver a short speech in praise of love. The seque...Loe edasi...
These new translations of the Defence of Socrates, the Euthyphro, and the Crito present Platos remarkable dramatizations of the momentous events surrounding the trial of Socrates in 399 BC, on charges of irreligion and corrupting the young. They for...Loe edasi...
A model for the ideal state includes discussion of the nature and application of justice, the role of the philosopher in society, the goals of education, and the effects of art upon character. The central work of one of the Wests greatest p...Loe edasi...
One of Platos most widely read dialogues, Gorgias treats the temptations of worldly success and the rewards of the genuinely moral life. Appealing to philosophers as a classic text of moral philosophy--and to everyone for its vividness, clarity, and...Loe edasi...
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In these four dialogues Plato considers virtue and its definition. Charmides, Laches, and Lysis investigate the specific virtues of self-control, courage, and friendship; the later Meno discusses the concept of virtue as a whole, and whether it is so...Loe edasi...
saadame teile pakkumise kasutatud raamatule, mille hind võib erineda kodulehel olevast hinnast
Once upon a time there were just the gods; mortal beings did not yet exist. We are used to thinking of myths containing lines like this simply as stories, and modern myths as made up and fictitious. For the ancient Greeks, however, a myth was...Loe edasi...
saadame teile pakkumise kasutatud raamatule, mille hind võib erineda kodulehel olevast hinnast
Phaedrus takes the form of a dialogue, with love as its ostensible subject. It closes by denigrating the value of the written word in any context, compared to the living teaching of a Socratic philosopher. Notes elucidate issues in the text that m...Loe edasi...
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In this dialogue, Plato shows the pretensions of the leading sophist, Protagoras, challenged by the critical arguments of Socrates. From criticism of the educational aims and methods of the sophists, the dialogue broadens out to consider the nature...Loe edasi...
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Platos Phaedo is deservedly one of the best known works of Greek literature, but also one of the most complex. Set in the prison where Socrates is awaiting execution, it portrays Platos model philosopher in action, spending his last hours in conver...Loe edasi...
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A translation of Platos telling of events surrounding the trial of Socrates. The Euthyphro, Defence of Socrates, and Crito raise fundamental questions about the basis of moral, religious, legal and political obligation. A philosophical and hi...Loe edasi...
saadame teile pakkumise kasutatud raamatule, mille hind võib erineda kodulehel olevast hinnast
One of Platos most widely read dialogues, Gorgias treats the temptations of worldly success and the rewards of the genuinely moral life. Appealing to philosophers as a classic text of moral philosophy--and to everyone for its vividness, cl...Loe edasi...
saadame teile pakkumise kasutatud raamatule, mille hind võib erineda kodulehel olevast hinnast
In his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC. The guests--including the comic poet Aristophanes and Platos mentor Socrates--each deliver a short speech in praise of love. The seque...Loe edasi...
saadame teile pakkumise kasutatud raamatule, mille hind võib erineda kodulehel olevast hinnast
A model for the ideal state includes discussion of the nature and application of justice, the role of the philosopher in society, the goals of education, and the effects of art upon character The central work of one of the Wests greatest phi...Loe edasi...
