The portable Plato  -  Πλάτων

Protagoras, Symposium, Phaedo, and the Republic : complete, in the English translation of Benjamin Jowett

KORTE INHOUD

Writing in the fourth century B.C., in an Athens that had suffered a humiliating defeat in the Peloponnesian War, Plato formulated questions that have haunted the moral, religious, and political imagination of the West for more than 2,000 years: what is virtue? How should we love? What constitutes a good society? Is there a soul that outlasts the body and a truth that transcends appearance? What do we know and how do we know it? Plato's inquiries were all the more resonant because he couched them in the for...
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1979 1x BEKROOND Uitgever: Penguin 696 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0140150404 ISBN-13: 9780140150407