Plato Of Athens

Author : Robin Waterfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Philosophers
ISBN : 9780197564752

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Plato of Athens by Robin Waterfield Pdf

"Plato of Athens is the first-ever biography of the world-famous philosopher. Born into a well-to-do family, he grew up in the increasing gloom of wartime Athens at the end of the fifth century BCE. Alongside a normal Athenian education, in his teens he honed his intellect by attending lectures by the many thinkers who passed through Athens, and toyed with the idea of writing poetry. He finally decided to go into politics, but became disillusioned, especially after the Athenians condemned his teacher, Socrates, to death. Instead he turned to writing and teaching. In 383 he founded the Academy, the world's first higher-educational research and teaching establishment, But he also returned after a while to practical politics and spent a considerable amount of time trying to create a constitution for Syracuse in Sicily that would reflect his political ideals. The attempt failed, and Plato's disappointment can be traced in his later political works"--

Author : Plato
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108059930

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TheEuthydemus of Plato by Plato Pdf

This 1905 students' edition of Plato's Euthydemus illuminates the educational preoccupations of both early twentieth-century England and classical Athens.

Author : Plato
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547175841

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Alcibiades II by Plato Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Alcibiades II" by Plato. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781616403133

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The Works of Plato by Plato Pdf

The Works of Plato: Analysis of Plato & The Republic are original Cosimo editions of a four-volume work, translated and analyzed by Benjamin Jowett. All of the works contained within are also published as separate works, but the four-volume set has added commentary from Jowett, considered one of the best translators of Plato's works. There are three editions in the Cosimo set; Volumes I and II make up the first book, and Volumes III and IV make up the second and third books. This set is ideal for any scholar of Plato and philosophy, whether amateur or seasoned. Volume III contains Plato's works concerning questions of the soul, mortality, love, and piety. Also included are dialogues featuring Plato's beloved teacher, Socrates. Included in Volume III: Meno, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, The Symposium, and Phaedrus. One of the greatest Western philosophers who ever lived, Plato (c. 428-347 B.C.) was a student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle. Plato was greatly influenced by Socrates' teachings, often using him as a character in scripts and plays (Socratic dialogues), which he used to demonstrate philosophical ideas. Plato's dialogues were and still are used to teach a wide range of subjects, including politics, mathematics, rhetoric, logic, and, naturally, philosophy.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UCLA:31158009826222

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Menexenus by Plato Pdf

Author : Plato
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : EAN:8596547328506

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Menexenus by Plato Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Menexenus" by Plato. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:SMP2300000062281

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Apology by Plato Pdf

The Apology of Socrates was written by Plato. In fact, it’s a defensive speech of Socrates that he said in a court noted down by Plato.The main subject of the speech is a problem of the evil. Socrates insists that neither death nor death sentence is evil. We shouldn’t be afraid of the death because we don’t know anything about it. Socrates proved that the death shouldn’t be taken as the evil with the following dilemma: the death is either a peace or a transit from this life to the next. Both can’t be called evil. Consequently, the death shouldn’t be treated as evil.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9783986471989

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Critias by Plato Pdf

Critias Plato - Critias, one of Plato's late dialogues, recounts the story of the mighty island kingdom Atlantis and its attempt to conquer Athens, which failed due to the ordered society of the Athenians. In this short book "Critias", you will find very intense and meaningful dialogues of Critias, Timaeus, Socrates, and Hermocrates.

Author : Paul Kalligas,Chloe Balla,Effie Baziotopoulou-Valavani,Vassilis Karasmanis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108426442

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Plato's Academy by Paul Kalligas,Chloe Balla,Effie Baziotopoulou-Valavani,Vassilis Karasmanis Pdf

A comprehensive, interdisciplinary history of Plato's Academy, the most prominent philosophical school in antiquity, which lasted for about 300 years. Also includes the first complete annotated translation in English of Philodemus' History of the Academy, preserved on a papyrus from Herculaneum.

Author : Michael A. Rinella
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781461634010

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Pharmakon by Michael A. Rinella Pdf

Pharmakon traces the emergence of an ethical discourse in ancient Greece, one centered on states of psychological ecstasy. In the dialogues of Plato, philosophy is itself characterized as a pharmakon, one superior to a large number of rival occupations, each of which laid claim to their powers being derived from, connected with, or likened to, a pharmakon. Accessible yet erudite, Pharmakon is one of the most comprehensive examinations of the place of intoxicants in ancient thought yet written.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015050748774

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The Last Days of Socrates by Plato Pdf

The trial and death of Socrates (469-399 BC) have almost as central a place in Western consciousness as the trial and death of Jesus. In four superb 'dialogues', Plato provided the classic account. Socrates spent a lifetime analysing ethical issues, and the Euthyphro finds him outside the court-house, still debating the nature of piety with an arrogant acquaintance. The Apology is both a robust rebuttal to the charges of impiety and corrupting young minds and a definitive defence of the philosopher's life. Later, condemned and imprisoned in the Crito, Socrates counters the arguments of friends urging him to escape. And finally, in the Phaedo , Plato shows him calmly confident in the face of death, skilfully arguing the case for the immortality of the soul. Such works, as Harold Tarrant explains in his fine introduction, are no longer regarded by scholars as direct transcriptions of real events; their power to move us-and to challenge our moral assumptions-remains undiminished.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664188533

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Alcibiades I by Plato Pdf

In 'The First Alcibiades', Socrates converses with the ambitious and proud Alcibiades, who seeks guidance before entering public life. As they discuss the essence of politics, Socrates challenges Alcibiades' knowledge of justice, and the youth concedes that he knows nothing about politics. Socrates warns him of the education, might, and richness of foreign rulers and stresses the importance of self-knowledge.

Author : Plato
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : EAN:8596547026365

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Laws by Plato Pdf

The Laws is Plato's last, longest, and perhaps, most famous work. It presents a conversation on political philosophy between three elderly men: an unnamed Athenian, a Spartan named Megillus, and a Cretan named Clinias. They worked to create a constitution for Magnesia, a new Cretan colony that would make all of its citizens happy and virtuous. In this work, Plato combines political philosophy with applied legislation, going into great detail concerning what laws and procedures should be in the state. For example, they consider whether drunkenness should be allowed in the city, how citizens should hunt, and how to punish suicide. The principles of this book have entered the legislation of many modern countries and provoke a great interest of philosophers even in the 21st century.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1539915085

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Apology by Plato Pdf

The Apology of Socrates is the Socratic dialogue that presents the speech of legal self-defence, which Socrates presented at his trial for impiety and corruption, in 399 BC. Specifically the Apology of Socrates is a defence against the charges of "corrupting the young" and "not believing in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other daimonia that are novel" to Athens. Among the primary sources about the trial and death of the philosopher Socrates (469-399 BC), the Apology of Socrates is the dialogue that depicts the trial, and is one of four Socratic dialogues, along with Euthyphro, Phaedo, and Crito, through which Plato details the final days of the philosopher Socrates.

Author : Glenn R. Morrow
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 659 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780691242859

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Plato's Cretan City by Glenn R. Morrow Pdf

Plato's Cretan City is a thorough investigation into the roots of Plato's Laws and a compelling explication of his ideas on legislation and social institutions. A dialogue among three travelers, the Laws proposes a detailed plan for administering a new colony on the island of Crete. In examining this dialogue, Glenn Morrow describes the contemporary Greek institutions in Athens, Crete, and Sparta on which Plato based his model city, and explores the philosopher's proposed regulations concerning property, the family, government, and the administration of justice, education, and religion. He approaches the Laws as both a living document of reform and a philosophical inquiry into humankind's highest earthly duty.