Author: B. Jowett
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-11-20
Total Pages: 610
ISBN-13: 3385233690
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author: Plato
Publisher:
Published: 1914
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →At head of title: New national edition. I. The Republic, introduction and analysis.--II. The Republic.--III. The trial and death of Socrates.--IV. Charmides and other dialogues, Selections from the Laws.
Author: William Keith Chambers Guthrie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780521294201
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The most striking merits of Guthrie's work are his mastery of a tremendous range of ancient literature and modern scholarship.
Author: David D. Corey
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2015-05-05
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 1438456174
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Draws out numerous affinities between the sophists and Socrates in Platos dialogues. Are the sophists merely another group of villains in Platos dialogues, no different than amoral rhetoricians such as Thrasymachus, Callicles, and Polus? Building on a wave of recent interest in the Greek sophists, The Sophists in Platos Dialogues argues that, contrary to the conventional wisdom, there exist important affinities between Socrates and the sophists he engages in conversation. Both focused squarely on aret? (virtue or excellence). Both employed rhetorical techniques of refutation, revisionary myth construction, esotericism, and irony. Both engaged in similar ways of minimizing the potential friction that sometimes arises between intellectuals and the city. Perhaps the most important affinity between Socrates and the sophists, David D. Corey argues, was their mutual recognition of a basic epistemological insightthat appearances (phainomena) both physical and intellectual were vexingly unstable. Such things as justice, beauty, piety, and nobility are susceptible to radical change depending upon the angle from which they are viewed. Socrates uses the sophists and sometimes plays the role of sophist himself in order to awaken interlocutors and readers from their dogmatic slumber. This in turn generates wonder (thaumas), which, according to Socrates, is nothing other than the beginning of philosophy.
Author: Plato
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1984-01-01
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780300077292
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Among Plato's later dialogues, the Parmenides is one of the most significant. Not only a document of profound philosophical importance in its own right, it also contributes to the understanding of Platonic dialogues that followed it, and it exhibits the foundations of the physics and ontology that Aristotle offered in his Physics and Metaphysics VII.
Author: W. K. C. Guthrie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1986-04-24
Total Pages: 626
ISBN-13: 9780521311014
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Plato, however, so prolific a writer, so profoundly original in his thought, and so colossal an influence on the later history of philosophy, that it has not been possible to confine him to one volume.