Socrates in Love

A revisionist biography of Socrates, looking at the passions of the philosopher's younger life and the way these influenced his status as one of th...

Reducere. 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 eac...

In Symposium, a group of Athenian aristocrats attend a party and talk about love, until the drunken Alcibiades bursts in and decides to discuss Soc...

Reducere. DescriptionA quotes book on Philosophy, Happiness & Spirituality. Inspirational Quotes that will change your life A reference quotations book from ...

Reducere. Christopher Phillips is a man on a mission: to revive the love of questions that Socrates inspired long ago in ancient Athens. "Like a Johnny Apple...

Reducere. In his brilliant dialogue, Symposium, Plato presents an imaginary dinner-party set in Athens in 416 BC where the guests include Aristophanes, Socra...

After the execution of Socrates in 399 BC, a number of his followers wrote dialogues featuring him as the protagonist and, in so doing, transformed...

Reducere. The Way Begins . . . Sergei was three when the soldiers took him. At fifteen he fled into the wilderness, with nothing to cling to but the memories...

Phaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus an...

Reducere. The first commandment of Socrates was: "Know Thyself." Real-Time Relationships provides the second commandment: "Speak Thy Truth." The first virtue...

Works in this volume explore the relationship between two people known as love (eros) or friendship (philia). In Lysis, Socrates meets two young me...

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....

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

Reducere. Difficult philosophy made easy. The universe and our place in it, the meaning of life, the nature of justice and the good society, and the powers o...

"Magnanimity is in short supply, " writes A. C. Grayling is this wonderfully incisive book, "but it is the main ingredient in everything that makes...

Reducere. From Socrates and the Sophists to Kant, from Augustine to Aquinas and the Reformers, Colin Brown traces the turbulent, often tension-filled, always...