The People of Plato

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...

Reducere. Allegory of the Cave - Plato - The Allegory of the Cave was presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work the Republic to compare "the effec...

Reducere. The Inner Dimension examines the philosophical significance of a remarkable family of experiences central to Eastern meditation traditions and repo...

Reducere. The theme of the Nicomachean Ethics is a Socratic question previously explored in the works of Plato, Aristotle's friend and teacher, of how men sh...

Reducere. DescriptionAs the indisputable father of Western philosophy, Socrates stands as the archetype of free inquiry and intellectual honesty throughout h...

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 ...

Reducere. Meet aspiring playwright Leonardo, twenty-four years old and fresh out of graduate school, arrives in New York City in the 1990s dreaming of Broadw...

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

Reducere. Undoubtedly the most influential black intellectual of the twentieth century and one of America's finest historians, W.E.B. DuBois knew that the li...

"Know thyself, " is inscribed in stone at the entrance to the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. For Socrates, "The unexamined life is not worth living." ...

Reducere. DescriptionIt is said that Buddha's mother conceived her son while in a state of blissful meditation under a banyan tree. Mary conceived Jesus in m...

Plato's finest dramatic work, an entertaining tale of goodness and knowledge Exploring the question of what exactly makes good people good, Protago...

DescriptionStoicism is two things: a long past philosophical school of ancient Greece and Rome, and an enduring philosophical movement that still i...

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...

Reducere. "Gaines' novel is deeply researched, and the reader will walk away with an understanding of not only Uruguay's repressive regimes, but also biomes,...

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Reducere. In this deeply moving collection of short stories and essays, Gordon Lee Johnson (Cupe o/Cahuilla) cements his voice not only as a wry commentator ...

Reducere. Vienna, 1714: Late in life, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, the universal genius of his time, puts down his pen and declares his description of the univ...

DescriptionPlato's "Meno" is a Socratic dialogue between the two main speakers, Socrates and Meno, and explores the definition of virtue and whethe...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael StutmanAuthor: Kevin ConklinThere's nothing quite like a great quotation to help you think differently or shed ligh...

Reducere. "The story of the future is written in the past."-Lord Acton, 1877. Did you know Greek philosopher Plato predicted democracy would degenerate into ...

A philosophical look at the movie Inception and its brilliant metaphysical puzzles Is the top still spinning? Was it all a dream? In the world of C...

Reducere. In the revised edition of his hit book The Sacred Search, author Gary Thomas helps single people of all ages make wise marital choices, in large pa...