LIBROS DEL AUTOR: plato plato

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  • Platon’s Ausgewahlte Schriften In Deutscher Uebersetzung, Erste Abtheilung (1859)
    Franz Susemihl / Plato L. Georgii / Plato LGeorgii
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    27,59 €

  • Symposium
    Plato
    Plato studied under Socrates and was Aristotle’s teacher. Together these three Greeks developed the basis of philosophical thinking for the entire Western world. Plato was also a writer, mathematician, and founder of the Academy in Athens, which was the first university in Europe. This Platonic dialog explores the philosophy of love and physical desire. Various views on the ...
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  • The Apology, Phaedo and Crito by Plato; The Golden Sayings by Epictetus; The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
    M. G. Epictetus / MGEpictetus / Plato
    Author name not noted above: Marcus Aurelius.Translator names not noted above: Benjamin Jowett, Hastings Crossley, and George Long. Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name 'Harvard Classics,' this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLI...
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  • The Apology, Phaedo and Crito by Plato; The Golden Sayings by Epictetus; The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
    M. G. Epictetus / MGEpictetus / Plato
    Author name not noted above: Marcus Aurelius.Translator names not noted above: Benjamin Jowett, Hastings Crossley, and George Long. Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name 'Harvard Classics,' this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLI...
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    54,94 €

  • Gorgias
    Plato / Benjamin Jowett
    An unabridged edition with introduction for study: Plato can do with words just as he pleases; to him they are indeed ’more plastic than wax’ (Republic). We are in the habit of opposing speech and writing, poetry and prose. But he has discovered a use of language in which they are united; which gives a fitting expression to the highest truths; and in which the trifles of courte...
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    11,85 €

  • Plato’s Apology Of Socrates And Crito
    Plato / Wilhelm Wagner
    Plato’s Apology of Socrates and Crito is a book that was published in 1886. It contains two of Plato’s famous dialogues, Apology and Crito, which explore the trial and death of Socrates. The book is accompanied by critical and exegetical notes, introductory notices, and a logical analysis of the Apology. The Apology is a defense of Socrates against charges of impiety and corrup...
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  • Platonis Dialogi Selecti V1 (1833)
    Plato
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    33,26 €

  • The Common Cause
    Joseph Plato Dexter
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    12,62 €

  • Statesman
    Plato
    Statesman is one of Plato’s later political works, a companion piece to Sophist. Less dramatic and more dogmatic than his earlier dialogues, Socrates is here reduced to a minor character while most of the conversation is carried on by a mysterious stranger from Elea. The purpose of the dialogue is partly to define a statesman, but also to demonstrate the use of the procedure o...
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    25,68 €

  • Symposium
    Plato
    Symposium is Plato’s masterwork on the subject of love.Socrates arrives late to the party of an aristocratic friend, where it is proposed that each guest shall give a speech on the subject of love. The speeches are by turn comic, absurd and unexpectedly profound. Yet it is Socrates’ speech that stands out. In it he tells of his instruction by the priestess Diotima in the myster...
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    24,69 €

  • The Republic
    Plato
    The Republic is arguably the greatest of Plato’s dialogues. Although its subject is the ideal state, it encompasses education, psychology, ethics and politics. In the Republic’s central passage, Plato uses myth to explore the nature of reality, conveying a vision of the human predicament and the role of philosophy in setting us free. He imagines a cave whose inhabitants are cha...
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    32,36 €

  • Phaedo
    Plato
    Phaedo is one of Plato’s most important works, exploring the nature of life, death, and the soul. Socrates has been sentenced to death for corrupting the youth of Athens. In the hours before he is forced to drink hemlock, he talks with his followers and friends, arguing in favor of in the immortality of the soul, and concluding that death holds no fear for the true philosophe...
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  • Phaedrus
    Plato
    Phaedrus is one of Plato’s best-loved dialogues, remarkable as a work of both philosophy and poetry.Lured into the countryside by the promise of a new speech, Socrates sits in the shade and talks with Phaedrus, a young amateur rhetorician. After Phaedrus recites a speech on love, Socrates delivers two speeches of his own, contrasting the baneful love induced by human folly wi...
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    14,55 €

  • Philebus
    Plato
    In one of his last dialogues, Plato examines the comparative worth of pleasure and knowledge.Philebus is a hedonist who argues that enjoyment is the ultimate good in human life. He is countered at the outset of the dialogue by Socrates, who claims that wisdom and knowledge are more important. Never content to simply argue a point, however, Socrates then goes on to reconsider ...
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    15,45 €

  • Parmenides
    Plato
    'Parmenides is one of Plato’s most challenging and interesting dialogues.By means of a conversation with the aged philosopher Parmenides, Plato conducts a detailed critical examination of a central tenet of his own philosophy, the Theory of Forms. Parmenides then introduces a series of exercises in dialectic centered on the idea of ’the one’. Many scholars contend that this c...
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    26,80 €

  • Phaedo
    Plato
    'Phaedo is one of Plato’s most important works, exploring the nature of life, death, and the soul. Socrates has been sentenced to death for corrupting the youth of Athens. In the hours before he is forced to drink hemlock, he talks with his followers and friends, arguing in favor of in the immortality of the soul, and concluding that death holds no fear for the true philosoph...
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    25,72 €

  • Phaedrus
    Plato
    Phaedrus is one of Plato’s best-loved dialogues, remarkable as a work of both philosophy and poetry.Lured into the countryside by the promise of a new speech, Socrates sits in the shade and talks with Phaedrus, a young amateur rhetorician. After Phaedrus recites a speech on love, Socrates delivers two speeches of his own, contrasting the baneful love induced by human folly wi...
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    25,80 €

  • Philebus
    Plato
    In one of his last dialogues, Plato examines the comparative worth of pleasure and knowledge.Philebus is a hedonist who argues that enjoyment is the ultimate good in human life. He is countered at the outset of the dialogue by Socrates, who claims that wisdom and knowledge are more important. Never content to simply argue a point, however, Socrates then goes on to reconsider ...
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    26,71 €

  • Protagoras
    Plato
    Protagoras is a lively and often humorous look at virtue, knowledge, and the best means of acquiring them.Ostensibly a debate between Socrates and a sophist opponent over the education of a young man, the dialogue also concerns the nature of the contest itself. As told in retrospect by a somewhat frustrated Socrates, he is asked by Hippocrates to broker an introduction to Prot...
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    24,69 €

  • Sophist
    Plato
    Is it possible to truly define existence, or pinpoint the essence of any object or entity? These are the questions addressed in Plato’s Sophist, a dialogue which takes on sophistry and Plato’s own early theories in an attempt to reveal the true roots and limitations of human knowledge. Sophist is one of Plato’s greatest dialogues, and Benjamin Jowett’s English translation is ...
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    26,71 €

  • Protagoras
    Plato
    Protagoras is a lively and often humorous look at virtue, knowledge, and the best means of acquiring them.Ostensibly a debate between Socrates and a sophist opponent over the education of a young man, the dialogue also concerns the nature of the contest itself. As told in retrospect by a somewhat frustrated Socrates, he is asked by Hippocrates to broker an introduction to Prot...
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    12,28 €

  • Sophist
    Plato
    Is it possible to truly define existence, or pinpoint the essence of any object or entity? These are the questions addressed in Plato’s Sophist, a dialogue which takes on sophistry and Plato’s own early theories in an attempt to reveal the true roots and limitations of human knowledge. Sophist is one of Plato’s greatest dialogues, and Benjamin Jowett’s English translation is ...
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    15,45 €

  • Statesman
    Plato
    Statesman is one of Plato’s later political works, a companion piece to Sophist. Less dramatic and more dogmatic than his earlier dialogues, Socrates is here reduced to a minor character while most of the conversation is carried on by a mysterious stranger from Elea. The purpose of the dialogue is partly to define a statesman, but also to demonstrate the use of the procedure o...
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    14,42 €

  • Gorgias
    Plato
    Plato’s Gorgias takes on the immortal themes of power, persuasion, and virtue.In ancient Athens, tremendous power lay in the ability to persuade, the art known as rhetoric. In this dialogue, Plato’s teacher Socrates visits Gorgias, an eminent rhetorician, to question him about his profession and what is ultimately achieved by it. The discussion then turns to power and where i...
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    16,52 €

  • Laws
    Plato
    Plato’s The Laws are just that - a vision of a complete legal system for an Ancient Greek city.Three old men are on a religious pilgrimage - an Athenian, a Spartan, and a Cretan. As they travel, it emerges that the Cretan has been given the duty to come up with laws for a new colony, and the men spend the rest of their journey devising and discussing these laws. Following fr...
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    21,11 €

  • Meno
    Plato
    Meno is an absorbing look at the question of human virtue.As in most of Plato’s dialogues, Meno features Socrates engaging a prominent thinker and attempting to draw out the implications of his theories. The topic at hand is virtue - what is it? Is it the same for everyone? Where does it come from? In Meno, Socrates also makes the case for the immortality of the soul, and k...
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    12,28 €

  • Parmenides
    Plato
    Parmenides is one of Plato’s most challenging and interesting dialogues.By means of a conversation with the aged philosopher Parmenides, Plato conducts a detailed critical examination of a central tenet of his own philosophy, the Theory of Forms. Parmenides then introduces a series of exercises in dialectic centered on the idea of ’the one’. Many scholars contend that this cr...
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    15,55 €

  • Alcibiades I & II
    Plato
    Alcibiades is a young Athenian man, arrogant and intelligent, pondering his future course in life. Socrates is older, wiser, and devoted to Alcibiades. In a series of dialogues, Socrates attempts to convince the younger man to abandon his political ambition and choose the philisophical life.In antiquity, the Alcibiades were regarded as the perfect introduction to Platonic phi...
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    25,76 €

  • Charmides
    Plato
    'Charmides is a classic Socratic dialogue which seeks to elucidate a single concept – that of sophrosyne, a Greek word most commonly translated into English as ‘temperance.’ As in many of his great works, Plato gives voice to his teacher Socrates, placing him in conversation with others who are less wise and more willing to commit themselves to untenable positions. Temperance...
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    25,81 €

  • Cratylus
    Plato
    'Cratylus is Plato’s only foray into linguistic philosophy, examining the relationship between language and truth. Hermogenes and Cratylus take opposing views of the nature of language. Hermogenes claims that all names are conventional, having no intrinsic relationship to the objects that they name, whilst Cratylus holds that names do have a relationship with the objects of the...
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    26,72 €