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Book Phaedo  Second Edition

Download or read book Phaedo Second Edition written by Plato and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A first rate translation at a reasonable price." -- Michael Rohr, Rutgers University

Book Phaedo

    Book Details:
  • Author : Plato,
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1979-04-26
  • ISBN : 9780198140146
  • Pages : 326 pages

Download or read book Phaedo written by Plato, and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1979-04-26 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Phaedo is acknowledged to be one of Plato's 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 achievements of antiquity. It is also a documentcrucial to the understanding of many ideas deeply ingrained in western culture, and provides one of the best introductions to Plato's thought. This new edition is eminently suitable for readers new to Plato, offering a readable translation which is accessible without the aid of a commentary andassumes no prior knowledge of the ancient Greek world or language.

Book Phaedo

Download or read book Phaedo written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook version of Phaedo presents the full text of this literary classic.

Book Five Dialogues

    Book Details:
  • Author : Plato
  • Publisher : Hackett Publishing
  • Release : 2002-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780872206335
  • Pages : 156 pages

Download or read book Five Dialogues written by Plato and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents translations of five dialogues from Plato, as well as additional notes on history and mythology.

Book A Plato Reader

    Book Details:
  • Author : Plato
  • Publisher : Hackett Publishing
  • Release : 2012-09-15
  • ISBN : 1603849165
  • Pages : 587 pages

Download or read book A Plato Reader written by Plato and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Plato Reader offers eight of Plato's best-known works--Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo, Symposium, Phaedrus, and Republic--unabridged, expertly introduced and annotated, and in widely admired translations by C. D. C. Reeve, G. M. A. Grube, Alexander Nehamas, and Paul Woodruff. The collection features Socrates as its central character and a model of the examined life. Its range allows us to see him in action in very different settings and philosophical modes: from the elenctic Socrates of the Meno and the dialogues concerning his trial and death, to the erotic Socrates of the Symposium and Phaedrus, to the dialectician of the Republic. Of Reeve's translation of this final masterpiece, Lloyd P. Gerson writes, "Taking full advantage of S. R. Slings' new Greek text of the Republic, Reeve has given us a translation both accurate and limpid. Loving attention to detail and deep familiarity with Plato's thought are evident on every page. Reeve's brilliant decision to cast the dialogue into direct speech produces a compelling impression of immediacy unmatched by other English translations currently available."

Book Plato  Meno and Phaedo

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Sedley
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2010-11-25
  • ISBN : 9780521859479
  • Pages : 166 pages

Download or read book Plato Meno and Phaedo written by David Sedley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-25 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato's Meno and Phaedo are two of the most important works of ancient western philosophy and continue to be studied around the world. The Meno is a seminal work of epistemology. The Phaedo is a key source for Platonic metaphysics and for Plato's conception of the human soul. Together they illustrate the birth of Platonic philosophy from Plato's reflections on Socrates' life and doctrines. This edition offers new and accessible translations of both works, together with a thorough introduction that explains the arguments of the two dialogues and their place in Plato's thought.

Book Introductory Readings in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy

Download or read book Introductory Readings in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy written by Patrick Lee Miller and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise anthology of primary sources designed for use in an ancient philosophy survey ranges from the Presocratics to Plato, Aristotle, the Hellenistic philosophers, and the Neoplatonists. The Second Edition features an amplified selection of Presocratic fragments in newly revised translations by Richard D. McKirahan. Also included is an expansion of the Hellenistic unit, featuring new selections from Lucretius and Sextus Empiricus as well as a new translation, by Peter J. Anderson, of most of Seneca’s De Providentia. The selections from Plotinus have also been expanded.

Book Five Dialogues  Bearing on Poetic Inspiration   translated by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Others  With an Introd  by A D  Lindsay

Download or read book Five Dialogues Bearing on Poetic Inspiration translated by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Others With an Introd by A D Lindsay written by Plato and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Trial and Death of Socrates

Download or read book The Trial and Death of Socrates written by Plato and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-08-17 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trial and Death of Socrates includes the four Platonic dialogues Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo.

Book Socratic Rationalism and Political Philosophy

Download or read book Socratic Rationalism and Political Philosophy written by Paul Stern and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1993-08-20 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new interpretation of Plato's Phaedo, Paul Stern considers the dialogue as an invaluable source for understanding the distinctive character of Socratic rationalism. First, he demonstrates, contrary to the charge of such thinkers as Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Rorty, that Socrates' rationalism does not rest on the dogmatic presumption of the rationality of nature. Second, he shows that the distinctively Socratic mode of philosophizing is formulated precisely with a view to vindicating the philosophic life in the face of these uncertainties. And finally, he argues that this vindication results in a mode of inquiry that finds its ground in a clear understanding of the problematical but enduring human situation. Stern concludes that Socratic rationalism, aware as it is of the limits of reason, still provides a nondogmatic and nonarbitrary basis for human understanding.

Book Clitophon s Challenge

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hugh H. Benson
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2015-04-01
  • ISBN : 0199324840
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Clitophon s Challenge written by Hugh H. Benson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugh H. Benson explores Plato's answer to Clitophon's challenge, the question of how one can acquire the knowledge Socrates argues is essential to human flourishing-knowledge we all seem to lack. Plato suggests two methods by which this knowledge may be gained: the first is learning from those who already have the knowledge one seeks, and the second is discovering the knowledge one seeks on one's own. The book begins with a brief look at some of the Socratic dialogues where Plato appears to recommend the former approach while simultaneously indicating various difficulties in pursuing it. The remainder of the book focuses on Plato's recommendation in some of his most important and central dialogues-the Meno, Phaedo, and Republic-for carrying out the second approach: de novo inquiry. The book turns first to the famous paradox concerning the possibility of such an inquiry and explores Plato's apparent solution. Having defended the possibility of de novo inquiry as a response to Clitophon's challenge, Plato explains the method or procedure by which such inquiry is to be carried out. The book defends the controversial thesis that the method of hypothesis, as described and practiced in the Meno, Phaedo, and Republic, is, when practiced correctly, Plato's recommended method of acquiring on one's own the essential knowledge we lack. The method of hypothesis when practiced correctly is, then, Platonic dialectic, and this is Plato's response to Clitophon's challenge. "This is a new book on a critically important topic, methodology, as it is explored in three of the most important works by one of the most important philosophers in the very long history of philosophy, written by a scholar of international stature who is working from many years of experience and currently at the top of his game. It promises to be one of the most important books ever written on this subject."-Nicholas Smith, James F. Miller Professor of Humanities, Lewis and Clark College "The thesis is bold and the results are important for our understanding of some of the most studied and controversial dialogues by and philosophical theses in Plato. In my view, Hugh Benson's examination of the method of hypothesis in the Meno and the Phaedo is a tour de force of subtle and careful scholarship: I think that this part of the book will be adopted as the standard interpretation of this basic notion in Plato. An excellent and important book."-Charles Brittain, Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy and Humane Letters, Cornell University

Book Symposium

Download or read book Symposium written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook version of Symposium presents the full text of this literary classic.

Book Four Dialogues

    Book Details:
  • Author : Plato
  • Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
  • Release : 2009-05-01
  • ISBN : 1434458164
  • Pages : 90 pages

Download or read book Four Dialogues written by Plato and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Included in this volume are "Euthyphro," "Apology," "Crito," and the Death Scene from "Phaedo." Translated by F.J. Church. Revisions and Introduction by Robert D. Cumming.

Book The Greek Commentaries on Plato s Phaedo

Download or read book The Greek Commentaries on Plato s Phaedo written by Leendert Gerrit Westerink and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two volume work of L G Westerink's fine text and parallel translation of the surviving Greek Commentaries on Plato's Phaedo have not only been out of print for many years, but which have been virtually unobtainable even in the second hand market. This is the second volume (the first being the Commentary of Olympiodorus) which presents the two Commentaries of Damascius. Both volumes have excellent introductions, extensive notes, and indexes. Amendments and updates have been added to these volumes from the notes of Westerink.

Book Phaedo

    Book Details:
  • Author : Plato
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2018-02-14
  • ISBN : 9781985288911
  • Pages : 88 pages

Download or read book Phaedo written by Plato and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-14 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After an interval of some months or years, and at Phlius, a town of Peloponnesus, the tale of the last hours of Socrates is narrated to Echecrates and other Phliasians by Phaedo the beloved disciple. The Dialogue necessarily takes the form of a narrative, because Socrates has to be described acting as well as speaking. The minutest particulars of the event are interesting to distant friends, and the narrator has an equal interest in them.

Book Loving and Dying

Download or read book Loving and Dying written by Richard Gotshalk and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loving and Dying is a reading of three dialogues (Phaedo, Symposium, and Phaedrus) which, using the figure of Socrates conversing in three different concrete situations, in complementary fashion address death, love, and reflection, as matters central to finding and understanding life's meaning and to sharing in the kind of immortality that is open to a human being. The intent of the work is simply to bring to attention how the dialogues register as drama and how they achieve this provocation of the reader to reflection on these central matters in human life

Book Plato

    Book Details:
  • Author : Plato
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2022-12-27
  • ISBN : 9789357001076
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Plato written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 2022-12-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scholar G.M.A. Rube, whose translations are renowned for their clarity and sensitivity to the intricacy of argument and the interaction of philosophical concepts, translated these dialogues from the original Greek.