Reading Plato's Theaetetus

This book intersperses philosophical commentary with a new translation of the whole dialogue to present an original case for thinking that Plato's ...

DescriptionWhat is knowledge? A systematic treatment of this question takes the form of a dialogue between the great philosopher Socrates and his s...

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

The Theaetetus is a seminal text in the philosophy of knowledge, acknowledged as one of Plato's finest works. Cast as a conversation between Socrat...

Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BCE. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philoso...

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

Plato's Theaetetus and Sophist are two of his most important dialogues, and are widely read and discussed by philosophers for what they reveal abou...

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...

Reconstructs Martin Heidegger's lecture course at the University of Marburg in the winter semester of 1924-25, which was devoted to an interpretati...

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...

Reducere. Plato's view that mathematics paves the way for his philosophy of forms is well known. This book attempts to flesh out the relationship between mat...

This is the second volume in the Plato Dialogue Project series: it is devoted to the Statesman, and offers a comprehensive philosophical analysis o...

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The second volume of a three-volume edition presenting the first complete translation of Proclus' commentary on Plato's Republic - the only sustain...

This book is a lucid and accessible companion to Plato's Republic, throwing light upon the text's arguments and main themes, placing them in the wi...

Reducere. We've all heard the old adage: When life hands you lemons, make lemonade. But no one ever says how. Finally, with the inspiration of Plato and the ...

A close text commentary on Plato's Charmides, which has been regarded as difficult and enigmatic. Examines the philosophical and dramatic features ...

Reducere. Plato's Epistemology: Being and Seeming presents an original interpretation of one of the central topics in Plato's work: epistemology. Jessica Mos...

Reducere. The significance of Plato's Apology of Socrates is impossible to overestimate. An account of the famous trial of Socrates in 399 b.c., it appeals t...

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 ...

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...

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

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...

Reducere. The Meno, one of the most widely read of the Platonic dialogues, is seen afresh in this original interpretation that explores the dialogue as a the...

This book provides all that is needed to study Plato's Atlantis story: Greek text, commentary, vocabulary of Greek terms, new translation and full ...

What is justice? How should an individual and a society behave justly? And how do they learn how to do so? These are just some of the core question...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Leo StraussNumber of pages: 416Collection: The Leo Strauss Transcript SeriesPublication date: ...

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

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

Reducere. A fresh and comprehensive account of the most frequently read work of Greek philosophy, for students and researchers.

Reducere. DescriptionA provocative essay that imagines a truly ecological future based on political transformation rather than the superficialities of "susta...

Plato's Sun-Like Good is a revolutionary discussion of the Republic's philosopher-rulers, their dialectic, and their relation to the form of the go...

Reducere. Plato's famous Allegory of the Cave teaches us that philosophy can transform our life and elevate it. It can help us understand the narrow "cave" i...

Publisher: Phoenix Publishing HouseAuthor(s): Nilofer KaulNumber of pages: 246Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 151 x 229 x 24Cover type: Paperback...

In Politics, Money, and Persuasion, distinguished philosopher John Russon offers a new framework for interpreting Plato's The Republic. For Russon,...

Reducere. Although Plato has long been known as a critic of imagination and its limits, Marina Berzins McCoy explores the extent to which images also play an...

A detailed social and economic history of Ireland during the Second World War, revealing the hidden story of the Irish Emergency. -- .Publisher: Ma...

A new translation of two of Plato's dialogues, Timaios and Kritias, with commentary and critical discussion including an exploration of how the tal...

Reducere. The Greeks and Romans have been charged with destroying the ecosystems within which they lived. In this book, however, M. D. Usher argues rather th...

Reducere. New 2016 paperback edition of the original 1989 printing (out-of-print). Michael Allen's latest work on the profoundly influential Florentine think...

Reducere. After studying ancient Greek for a year, students often become discouraged when presented with unabridged classical texts that offer only minimal s...

Rachana Kamtekar offers a new understanding of Plato's account of the soul and its impact on our living well or badly, virtuously or viciously. She...

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...

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. Plato's Critique of Impure Reason offers a dramatic interpretation of the Republic, at the center of which lies a novel reading of the historical p...