Plato's Cosmology. The Timaeus of Plato, Paperback - Francis M. Cornford

A work on the Timaeus that takes Plato's Cosmology as starting point.

Reducere. The present volume is a reprint of Thomas Taylor's 1820 translation of Proclus' Commentaries on the Tim us of Plato, which remains to this day argu...

Explores the Timaeus' impact on pre-modern Greek and Arabic conceptualizations of medicine and will appeal to classicists, medievalists, and histor...

Timaeus and Critias is a Socratic dialogue in two parts. A response to an account of an ideal state told by Socrates, it begins with Timaeus's theo...

"Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato."--Emerson The Republic and other great dialogues by the immortal Greek philosopher Plato are masterpie...

Reducere. Two late dialogues of Plato designed to be part of a trilogy that the philosopher did not finish, "Timaeus" and "Critias" utilize a few select men ...

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): PlatoIllustration(s): noneTranslator: M. J. LevettNumber of pages: 368Collection: Hackett ClassicsP...

Reducere. The General Introduction contained in the present volume is drawn from Thomas Taylor's five-volume set of the complete Works of Plato, originally p...

Reducere. DescriptionAmong all the writings of Plato the Timaeus is the most obscure to the modern reader, and has nevertheless had the greatest influence ov...

Reducere. The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BC, concerning justice, the order and character of the just city-state and the jus...

Ficino's commentary on Plato's Timaeus offers the English reader, for the first time, an opportunity to share the insights of this highly influenti...

Reducere. Plato's "The Republic" is a Socratic dialogue written sometime around 380 BC concerning the definition of justice and the order and character of th...

Publisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): John SallisNumber of pages: 192Collection: The Collected Writings of John SallisPublication date: 202...

Reducere. Atlantis was first introduced by the Greek philosopher Plato in two "dialogues" he wrote in the fourth century B.C. His tale of a great empire that...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Written in political exile in New Zealand during the World War II and first published in two volumes in 1945, Karl Popper's "The Open Society and I...

Reducere. Plato (424/423 - 348/347 BC) was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learni...

Antichrist Connection: Coming from the Tribe of Dan serves to prepare the reader for the events of the last days. Most people today lack knowledge ...

Plato, Allan Bloom wrote, is "the most erotic of philosophers, " and his Symposium is one of the greatest works on the nature of love ever written....

Reducere. In this book, F.M. Cornford explains why the life and work of Socrates stand out as marking a turning-point in the history of thought. He shows how...

Barasch expertly guides the reader from the interwoven traditions of antiquity, through the aesthetic values of the Middle Ages, to the branching o...

Plato's Symposium, written in the early part of the 4th century BC, is set at a drinking party (symposium) attended by some of the leading intellec...

Reducere. The trial of Socrates refers to the trial and the subsequent execution of the Athenian philosopher Socrates in 399 BC. Socrates was tried and convi...

Reducere. What reviewers say..."As Proverbs 25: 2 tells us, "it is the glory of God to conceal a matter, " and those who feel that Genesis is a simple, strai...

This scholarly volume proposes protreptic as a radically new way of reading Plato's dialogues leading to enhanced student engagement in learning an...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: PlatoTranslator: James H. NicholsWith a masterful sense of the place of rhetoric in both thought and practice and an ear at...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Republic by Plato is a landmark achievement in Ancient Greek philosophy - this edition contains every book, complete in a superb tra...

Poems and letters about love, war and suffering from anti-fascist Byronic figure, killed during battle in 1936

This book reorients the scholarship on Plato by returning readers to his most fundamental insights, reflections on the nature of the human psyche, ...

Written against the backdrop of the student uprisings of the late 1960s, this text took seriously the revolutionary fervour of the times. Instead o...

DescriptionLiterary Criticism from Plato to the Present provides a concise and authoritative overview of the development of Western literary critic...

Reducere. Collected here in two volumes are the complete works of Plato, in the classic translation by Benjamin Jowett. One of the most influential thinkers ...

Reducere. Collected here in two volumes are the complete works of Plato, in the classic translation by Benjamin Jowett. One of the most influential thinkers ...

Reducere. DescriptionAllegory of the Cave by Plato from The Republic by Plato and translated by Benjamin Jowett. The Allegory of the Cave, or Plato's Cave, w...

Using archaeology, social anthropology, and more than 100 original line drawings and photographs, this book takes a fresh look at how ancient image...