The Dialogues of Plato

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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...

subjects: Aesthetics,  Ancient Philosophy,  Ancient Rhetoric,  Bibliography,  Biography,  Early works to 1800,  Ethics,  Filosofía antigua,  Friendship,  Greek Dialogues,  Greek poetry,  History,  History & criticism,  History and criticism,  Imaginary conversations,  Language and languages,  Love,  Male Homosexuality,  Methodology,  Nonfiction,  Ontology,  Philosophers,  Philosophy,  Pleasure,  Poetics,  Political science,  Rhetoric,  Socrates,  Sophists (Greek philosophy),  The Holy,  Theory of Knowledge,  Utopias,  Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893,  Filosofie,  Philosophie ancienne,  Ouvrages avant 1800,  Platao,  Platonismo,  Colecciones de escritos,  Colecciones,  Vertus,  Literatura griega,  Filosofía griega,  Platonists,  Dialogen,  Klassieke oudheid,  Grieks,  Philosophy, ancient

People: Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893),  Plato,  Protagoras,  Socrates,  Sócrates,  Thomas Taylor (1758-1835),  Platón (428-347 a. C),  Socrate

Places: Greece

Times: Early works to 1800