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It has been said that, after the Bible, Plato's dialogues are the most influential books in Western culture. And of the dialogues, the Symposium is ... More

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In his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC. The guests--including the comic poet ... More

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Provides an account of Socrates' trial, jury verdict, and sentencing; explores the philosopher's views on his punishment; and offers his thoughts on ... More

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'Consider just this, and give your minds to this alone: whether or not what I say is just'. Plato's account of Socrates' trial and death (399 BC) is ... More

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Plato's Apology of Socrates is a masterpiece of ancient rhetoric which illuminates Plato's version of Socrates' dialectical method. This edition aims ... More

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Since the appearance of Plato's Dialogues, philosophers have been preoccupied with the identity of Socrates and have maintained that successful ... More

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Greek Philosophers contains essays on three of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. ... More

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In Socrates in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Socrates life and ideas, and explains their influence on man s struggle ... More

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This is the first full-length study of the Symposium to be published in English, and one of the first English works on Plato to take its bearings by ... More

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Among the most important and influential philosophical works in Western thought: the dialogues entitled "Euthyphro, Apology, Crito" and "Phaedo." ... More

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Among the most important and influential philosophical works in Western thought: Euthyphro, exploring the concepts and aims of piety and religion; ... More

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This volume in the introductory Inside the Ancient World series, aimed at GCSE/A level students, investigates the true Socrates beneath the myth that ... More

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Whitlock's translation makes available for the first time in English a key lecture series delivered by the young Friedrich Nietzsche at the ... More

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The focus of this account is how myth and formal argument in the dialogue Phaedrus complement and reinforce each other in Plato's philosophy. Not ... More

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The focus of this account is how myth and formal argument in the dialogue Phaedrus complement and reinforce each other in Plato's philosophy. Not ... More

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The first one-volume introduction to Plato's biography with a complete account of his works since A.E. Taylor's. It includes a systematic explanation ... More

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Aristotle was named the 'master of those who know.' He is a foundational thinker in every field of inquiry. He established logic as a systematic ... More

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Socrates, as he is portrayed in Plato's early dialogues, remains one of the most controversial figures in the history of philosophy. This book ... More

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With a new foreword by Scott Austin 'I hope that these essays may illustrate the thesis that all history is or should be the history of problem ... More

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A new and systematic account of Socrates 'ideas' as presented in three key Platonic dialogues

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