Selected Dialogues of Plato: The Benjamin Jowett Translation, Paperback

Reducere. The ancient Greek philosopher Plato was born around 425 BC to an aristocratic family. He was the most famous student of Socrates and would eventual...

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. Plato was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world...

What does it mean to be good? What enables us to distinguish right from wrong? And how should human virtues be translated into a just society? Thes...

Reducere. DescriptionPlato's most famous work and one of the most important books ever written on the subject of philosophy and political theory, "The Republ...

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

Reducere. These dialogues by Plato have been translated from the original Greek by the scholar and classicist Benjamin Jowett, whose translations are known f...

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

Reducere. This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an at...

Reducere. The ancient Greek Philosopher Plato was born around 425 BCE to an aristocratic family. He enjoyed the privilege of being a student of Socrates, but...

These two dialogues by the greatest of the ancient Greek philosophers explore a vital concern of a democratic society: how to define the special ab...

A philosophical text about the genesis, purpose and nature of love, and is the origin of the concept of Platonic love.

Reducere. In 427 B.C., the Ancient Greek city-state of Athens was flourishing. Approximately 80 years earlier, the Athenians had formed the first self-repres...

Reducere. A reissue of Plato's work on political philosophy, this new translation aims to provide an accurate rendition of the work.

Publisher: St Augustine's PressAuthor(s): Nicholas CapaldiNumber of pages: 526Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 158 x 237 x 40Cover type: HardbackR...

Presents Grube's translations. This title includes a number of footnotes along with a bibliography.

This volume ranges from studies of Baudelaire, Brecht, and the historian Carl Jochmann to appraisals of photography, film, and poetry. At their cor...

DescriptionThis anthology is remarkable not only for the selections themselves, among which the Schelling and the Heidegger essays were translated ...

Radical critic of a European civilization plunging into darkness, yet commemorator of the humane traditions of the old bourgeoisie--such was Walter...

Reducere. The astrological poem (Carmen Astrologicum) of Dorotheus of Sidon (1st Century AD) played a key role in later Persian, Arabic, and Latin astrology,...

DescriptionThe Greek satirist Lucian was a brilliantly entertaining writer who invented the comic dialogue as a vehicle for satiric comment. His in...

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 ...

Reducere. Produced using traditional Chinese bookbinding techniques--including a hand-sewn spine, uncut pages, and a cloth cover--this exquisite dual-languag...

Benjamin Rush was a Founding Father of the United States. Rush lived in the state of Pennsylvania and was a physician, writer, educator, humanitari...

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....

Contributor(s): Editor: Joachim NeugroschelThe Golem, a creature made of clay and brought to life by Rabbi Leyb of Prague in the sixteenth century,...

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

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...

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Translation and Cultural Identity: Selected Essays on Translation and Cross-Cultural Communication tackles the complexity of the concepts mentioned...

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. 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...

This volume encompasses critical dialogues that question how the field of psychology is shaped by the current neoliberal political context. Spannin...

Plato: The Symposium

This is a completely new translation of one of the great works of Western political thought. In addition to Tom Griffith's vivid, dignified and acc...

Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Fredric JamesonNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 139 x 209 x 20Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

The Russo-Japanese War was the first major conflict of the 20th century, as vast armies clashed in Manchuria incurring enormous casualties. This te...